Google Retiring Chrome Frame

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9 points·heydenberk··4 comments

Note that it remains an open-source project, so folks for whom it's important can still use it.

I'm a web dev. My clients aren't willing to have websites that tell (potentially locked-down) visitors to contact their system administrators, but my clients are willing to have websites that offer a painless, almost invisible upgrade.

The death of Chrome Frame means that I'm probably going to be dragged back to writing for IE8. Time to dust off those polyfills.

There are technologies that are successful when they obsolete themselves, and then there are other technologies, like tent poles, that you don't appreciate until they vanish. Like Google Chrome Frame. Like Google Reader. Now we're all just thrashing around in a pile of useless canvas. (Or <canvas/>.)

I imagine this move is because IE < 9 is being EOLed next year. At that point, it won't be getting security updates. Their new model of adding an IE plugin inside of chrome, rather than a chrome plugin in IE seems like it would be a lot more secure.

Also, this just means it won't be updated by google. Its open source, and im sure the community will continue to maintain it, and anyone who had it installed will continue to have it.

The problem with Chrome Frame is that once it's installed all sites are free to use it. Some enterprises won't let people install it for this reason.

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