Finally, an update for IE6 (It's NOT from M$) Saturday, September 26, 2009 at 12:13 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) In an effort to get its latest online offerings to work for folks who are stuck with The World's Worst Browser[1], Google is offering a fix for Internet Exploder. cache of http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/180181.asp The way they have made HTML5 and other 21st Century Web improvements work with the browser that has the worst standards compliance is via a plug-in. What the plug-in does is substitute the WebKit HTML rendering engine used by Google's Chrome browser in place of M$'s tired old Trident engine and substitutes Google's V8 JavaScript rendering engine for M$'s sorry JScript engine. (JavaScript rendering speeds improve by a huge factor.) In this mode, all that is left of Internet Exploder is the User Interface. (Since Chrome itself--i.e. the UI--won't work under Win9x, this is significant.) You knew that M$ would never again pay the slightest attention to IE6. Google, however, has made sure this works with even that decrepit old thing. The big downside (if you're already using a Gecko/Mozilla browser) is that WebKit/Chrome doesn't have the extension infrastructure that Gecko has. This means no AdBlock, no NoScript, nor none of the thousands of amazing tweaks that Firefox/SeaMonkey can have that make the 'Net a less dreary place. [1] If you can believe it, there are some corporations who locked themselves into intranet apps that ONLY work with ActiveX --and only the version of ActiveX that comes with IE6. As such, they can't upgrade their browsers--not even a later version of IE. Note also that you can only have ONE version of Internet Exploder installed on any Windoze box.[2] Truly stupid all around. [2] Assuming no virtualizing software. Responses to this message: re: Finally, an update for IE6 (It's NOT from M$) (Arminius: Saturday, September 26, 2009 at 8:47 pm) re: Finally, an update for IE6 (It's NOT from M$) (bob wells: Saturday, September 26, 2009 at 11:50 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Finally, an update for IE6 (It's NOT from M$) (gewg_: Sat, Sep 26, 2009, 12:13 pm) re: Finally, an update for IE6 (It's NOT from M$) (Arminius: Sat, Sep 26, 2009, 8:47 pm) re: Finally, an update for IE6 (It's NOT from M$) (gewg_: Sun, Sep 27, 2009, 1:45 pm) re: Finally, an update for IE6 (It's NOT from M$) (Arminius: Sun, Sep 27, 2009, 5:48 pm) re: Finally, an update for IE6 (It's NOT from M$) (bob wells: Sat, Sep 26, 2009, 11:50 pm) re: Finally, an update for IE6 (It's NOT from M$) (gewg_: Sun, Sep 27, 2009, 1:50 pm) re: Finally, an update for IE6 (It's NOT from M$) (bob wells: Sun, Sep 27, 2009, 2:31 pm) re: Finally, an update for IE6 (It's NOT from M$) (gewg_: Sun, Sep 27, 2009, 3:23 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum