Enrico Stahn

IE6 is still an annoying part of a developers life. A workaround for this problem is Google Chrome Frame. html5boilerplate.com has updated to version 2.0 recently including support for Chrome Frame. Even better, html5boilerplate.com prompt IE 6 users to install Chrome Frame. It's a showcase how to migrate the user seamlessly without administrator privileges.

Now imagine that you have a set of Internet Explorer 6 machines and it was possible to deploy Google Chrome Frame to render everything by default except a few intranet sites that work only with IE6, what would you get?

• The enhanced security of sandboxed renderer, sandboxed flash/PDF, effectively replacing IE with Google Chrome’s rendering engine whilst browsing the wild, wild Internet.
• Legacy compatibility of Internet Explorer whilst accessing intranet sites.
• Industry-leading response rate for high and critical risk reported vulnerabilities.
• Google Chrome’s auto update strategy that is speedy and easy to administer.

Interested? Check it out!

• Google Chrome Frame FAQ
• HTML5 Boilerplate

A real time-saver back in XP-times was the Image Resizer from Microsofts PowerToys. Unfortunately this tool doesn't work for Vista, but there are some alternatives out there.

• Prish Image Resizer – new “Power Toy” replacement for Windows Vista/7/XP
• Image Resizer PowerToy Clone for Windows

I guess both working great, but I just tested the first one because this meets my requirements perfectly.