Make IE emulate Google Chrome!

Internet Explorer leaves out many of HTML5's important features such as the CANVAS tag, SVG vector graphics, CSS3 colours etc. If you really want to experience HTML5, then one would be forced to switch to Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. But if you're really don't want to switch from IE, there is a Google solution.

Google Chrome Frame is a plug-in for IE6 and later, which will monitor the pages you're viewing, and any that are marked as compatible will automatically be rendered by the Google Chrome Frame.

Any page that has added the Google Chrome Frame tag will automatically rendered in Google Chrome Frame.

 <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="chrome=1">

To force a page to render in Google Chrome Frame, you need to add cf: before any url. For example, you would type cf:http://www.blogger.com instead of just http://www.blogger.com to render Blogger in Google Chrome Frame.

The real benefit of Google Chrome Frame comes from JavaScript-heavy sites, which can run 10 times faster than running them in a normal IE browser window.

One installed you can test Google Chrome Frame with the following sites:
RGraph site
Uses the HTML5 canvas tag to draw various charts and graphs.

http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider-driver.html
SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark page.

http://wave.google.com/
Google Wave that doesn't recommend IE browsers.

Download Google Chrome Frame here.

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