K-Create » browsers http://k-create.com Website for Kris Hedstrom: freelance web designer and developer from Seattle, WA Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:57:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Google Chrome Frame http://k-create.com/2011/05/google-chrome-frame/ http://k-create.com/2011/05/google-chrome-frame/#comments Wed, 11 May 2011 23:22:56 +0000 Kris Hedstrom http://k-create.com/?p=762 It was announced earlier today that Google Chrome Frame can now be installed without having admin rights to the computer. This is (or can be) huge for people in corporations that don’t have admin rights to their workstations. Anyone can now install Google Chrome Frame and view sites in IE rendered with Chrome. Pretty neat.

Not exactly sure how Google was able to do this, but rumor is they have pretty smart people over there.

To trigger GCF you just set a flag

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge,chrome=1">;

or add an HTTP header.

X-UA-Compatible: chrome=1

That’s it. If GCF is installed and enabled by the user, the page will get rendered as in Chrome.

Links:
More information on WebMonkey
Google Chrome Frame

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I created a simple demo here (a twitter search):
http://k-create.com/lab/js/speech/

Only works in Chrome/Chromium, obviously.

You can read the full proposed specs here.

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defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true
defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1

Once you restart Safari you’ll notice that there’s a “Develop” menu in the the toolbar, and you can right click on elements to bring up the Inspector.

Develop Toolbar

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