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David Mitchell Smith is a vice president and Gartner Fellow in Gartner Research, where he specializes in the impact of catalytic technologies such as the Internet, Web 2.0, cloud computing and consumer technologies. Read Full Bio

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Oh and one more thing (about Chrome Frame)…

by David M. Smith  |  September 25, 2009  |  Comments Off

Yesterday I blogged about this and I had a couple of further thoughts.

First, my colleague Nick Gall brought to my attention that I may have implied accidentally about the capabilities of GCF (Google Chrome Frame).

GCF does not replace the IE renderer as the default renderer, it merely adds GCF as an optional renderer that is only invoked if explicitly requested by the web page creator. So GCF is not going to solve ANY problems until a substantial number of websites include the GCF tag.

Then I read some more postings about it including which say that Google is being very clever.  Actually, if they were really clever, what they would do is the opposite: an IE6 rendering engine (by a type of wrapping of the existing IE6 DLLs) for Chrome for Windows 7.  I don’t know how hard it would be and if it would cause licensing or other issues. But it would be clever if they could do it. And valuable. and would solve the “IE problem” for many.

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