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Comment by tintin | Hacker News Reader

As a webdeveloper I hope this won't be the future:

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

This might be the edge of HTML5, but is regression of the internet. Remember the "This site should be viewed in IE5 or higher"? I hated it back then, I hate it now.

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That's a Chrome Frame opt-in. Its only effect is to instruct an installation of IE with Chrome Frame installed to switch over to Chrome Frame for these sites.

That said, I do think Chrome Frame is a bad idea because it hijacks one browser and turns it into a weird hybrid instead of just encouraging the use of Chrome in the first place.

its only used in cases where the installation of chrome is not available, or features based on proprietary VBScript attributes that are only available in IE are needed on other sites.

Browsers will always be at different points on feature support. If they weren't they would all be stagnating and I don't think that is a great future either.

That hasn't changed, browsers just indicate it by crashing these days...

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