Google Chrome Frame is an open-source plugin that adds HTML5, Canvas, a fast JavaScript engine and more to Internet Explorer; in fact it just swaps out Trident with Webkit! Developers can opt-in to the feature on their sites via a meta-tag / 
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Member since:2006-01-16
Just tried it with Youtube. Works fine.
To force use of the rendering engine to test it out on a page, append "cf:" to the front of the URL.
For instance:
http://www.osnews.com
forced to render using the plugin would be
cf:http://www.osnews.com
Member since:2006-01-25
Didn't know you could do that. Nice way for them to handle that - the user can _try_ and use the plugin whenever they want, but links and such will never use the plugin unless the meta tag tells them to. Everybody is happy 
ps. I have to say also: I just LOVE the fact that they are subverting the X-UA-Compatible meta tag for this. Hell, I don't even know if you can call it subverting - because they are actually using that tag exactly as it is intended to be used. Its just that I highly doubt MS thought anyone would do anything like this with it when they put it in their browser. Oh, the irony...
Member since:2005-07-11
Member since:2009-08-18
"Just tried it with Youtube. Works fine. "
Youtube no longer uses flash. It switched to QuickTime/MPEG4
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0MWK/is_n7_v12/ai_20331478/
Member since:2007-02-17
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2006-01-26
And what does Google Frame do if the webpage it is rendering uses Flash? Does it make use of the IE Flash plugin, or does it require a separately installed Flash plugin for Chrome Frame?...
I could see this getting pretty funky for the end users and developers.