Now this’ll be the most wanted feature for any web developer out there. Google has introduced a plug-in – Chrome Frame for Internet Explorer which enables the Internet Explorer browser to take advantage of HTML 5 and the other latest improvment in JavaScript execution engine. That means, now IE also supports all the trendy features of HTML 5. So, you don’t need to avoid using a Canvas or JavaScript-heavy user interface in your website, simply because your users are still using any version of IE.
How Chrome Frame enables the HTML 5 support Internet Explorer?
First the user needs to install the Chrome Frame plug-in in his/her machine. Then the developer, i.e. you, needs to add a meta tag in your web page that contains the HTML 5 features.
<meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”chrome=1″>
The meta tag acts like a switch between the IE and the Chrome Frame. When Chrome Frame detects this meta tag in any of the page, then Chrome Frame takes over to render the page using Web-kit based rendering engine. But the end user will be just seeing the Internet Explorer interface.
IE Fix, but at a bigger level. Isn’t it?
All these day we, the web developers, were doing lots of IE specific fixes, workarounds just to make sure that the page renders the same way in all browsers. Now, Google is also doing this but at a bigger level. This is an unavoidable move for Google, because for Google Wave, they need HTML 5. But, they still can’t ignore IE (and you know why!). But can you expect your rivalry to update their browser just to support your new technology!? No way!. Thus the Google reveals the Chrome Frame plug-in for Internet Explorer.
What ever it is.. the developers will have less IE nightmares in the coming days! 
