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Chromie

Amit Joshi, Alex Russell and Mike Smith: To start using Google Chrome Frame, all developers need to do is to add a single tag:

<meta equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="chrome=1">

That’s just so wrong on so many levels.  What’s on the web site doesn’t even match the videoInstant legacy!


Site now reads:

<meta-http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="chrome=1">

Which is even worse.

Posted by Sam Ruby at

And... site is now “corrected”, so perhaps the instant legacy aspects can be contained, but it is still wrong on so many levels.

Posted by Sam Ruby at

There’s no hyphen between meta and http-equiv. They’re just overloading IE’s misguided quirksmode switch. As this is an IE plugin, I guess this decision won’t do much harm, because X-UA-Compatible is in IE anyway. An IE without the plugin will probably ignore this meta directive and use DOCTYPE to decide between quirks and standards mode, so maybe it’s even a good thing because it breaks the intended use of X-UA-Compatible.

Posted by anonymous at

Wow! That is beautiful. And so “DEVIOUS” as a friend commented. :)

Posted by Ryan Riley at

Mozilla planned to do something similar with ScreamingMonkey, but by hooking <script type="application/ecmascript;version=4"> and <script type="application/javascript;version=2">, but that seems to have died with ActionMonkey.

Sigh, and your site has forgotten me again. Maybe a year isn’t long enough for a cookie, given the odds I’ll comment in the same browser in that time.

Posted by James at

Bespin commit [Hat tip to Dion Almaer] => validator output

Posted by Sam Ruby at

And another

Posted by Jeff Schiller at

romanandreg: @gesteves do you know this guy?... he linked a tweet made by you :-s =&gt; http://intertwingly.net/blog/2009/09/22/Chromie

romanandreg: @gesteves do you know this guy?... he linked a tweet made by you :-s => [link]...

Excerpt from Twitter / romanandreg at

brianleroux: @obie For now, I'll point to @samruby to explain why gframe is evil: http://intertwingly.net/blog/2009/09/22/Chromie

brianleroux: @obie For now, I’ll point to @samruby to explain why gframe is evil: [link]...

Excerpt from Twitter / brianleroux at

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