Internet Explorer won’t run Google Wave!

Internet Explorer won’t run Google Wave!

Google has just launched their new plug-in for Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Google Chrome Frame has been developed to allow IE users to run Chrome rendering engine that provides support for newer web technologies and faster JavaScript engine.

One another good reason to install this plug-in is Google Wave.

Google developers have revealed that Google Wave just would not support Internet Explorer. Users who want to use it with IE would have to install Chrome Frame!

Google gave the reasons for not supporting IE with their upcoming Wave:

Google Wave depends on strong JS and DOM rendering performance to provide a desktop-like experience in the browser. HTML5’s offline storage and web workers will enable us to add great features without having to compromise on performance. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer, still used by the majority of the Web’s users, has not kept up with such fairly recent developments in Web technology. Compared with other browsers, the JavaScript performance is many times slower and HTML5 support is still far behind. Likewise, the many different versions of IE still in use — each with its own set of CSS quirks and layout limitations — further complicates building rich Web applications.

In the past, the Google Wave team has spent countless hours solely on improving the experience of running Google Wave in Internet Explorer. We could continue in this fashion, but using Google Chrome Frame instead lets us invest all that engineering time in more features for all our users, without leaving Internet Explorer users behind.

We believe this is going to become more common with Google powered services. Instead of forcing users to switch to Chrome, they are going to suggest them to install the Chrome Frame to get rid of the headaches that come with supporting Internet Explorer 6.