First look at Google Chrome's Frame

Are you willing to use Google chrome you don't have privileges to install the new browser. There might be the IT department which may block installing new applications. You might be a SharePoint guy using IE heavily for development related works and also using Google apps like Gmail, Google reader etc for personal things Are you one of them. Google comes up with Chrome Frame

There's a way to leverage Chrome's state-of-the art rendering engine within Internet explorer without installing Google Chrome. Again Google leverages the existing capability to give more comfort to its users just like what happened for XmlHttp object.

Google developed a IE plugin/addon to replace Microsoft's traditional Trident layout engine with Chrome's layout engine based upon Webkit. You can call this Chrome layout by adding the prefix of cf: before any url. For eg:- Google home page will be cf:http://www.google.co.in/

So as a web developer do you want to use the feature of Chrome which is not present in IE(for eg Canvas tags). You just need to add the following meta tag to you code

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

Google provides a Javascript code snippet to detect whether Chrome frame exists or not,if not then it will prompt the users to install the plugin

Google's Search home page in Frame

Google Frame's About page


This Frame project is still in its early stages so expect some buggy things too. Let's see how Microsoft handles this plugin in future.

Gmail is no more a BETA product

Google apps are out of beta tags. Gmail, Google calendar, Docs and Gtalk are out of beta versions. After more than five years Google removed the beta sticker from Gmail

The Official Google Blog now proclaims: Google Apps is out of beta (yes, really) . And Matthew Glotzbach, director of product management for Google Enterprise more or less spells out that the decision has been taken for marketing reasons.

Google is keen to sell Google Apps to business users.

Are you using Google products ? Awake

Look who's watching MSDN blog

Yes, it's Google Analytics watching Microsoft  MSDN SharePoint blog home page
Give a check .

Browser Speed test . . . .

I did few benchmark for all my browsers on my desktop to just check who is fast,faster, fastest using SunSpider JavaScript. Ok let's see the stats

Google Chrome	1757.6 ms
FireFox 3.0	3695.8ms
Apple Safari 3.1	5021.2 ms
Opera 9.50	5237.2 ms
Opera 9.62	4681.0 ms
Microsoft IE 7.0	36744.6ms
Microsoft IE 6.0	60803.8ms

Obviously Google chrome is the front runner and we are expecting more in Microsoft IE 8 because the results of IE 7 and IE 6 soars. If you look at the stats you can notice Opera improves a lot in its latest 9.62.

Want to test your browser how fast it is ? Here you go
http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider-driver.html

Who ever wins or loses , the end user is surely getting the best out of the market :-)

Even Gmail server goes down.

Gmail is no exception from server errors, but it crashed graciously.

SSL Certificate bug in Google

I recently enabled SSL encryption in Gmail. After enabling SSL, navigating to Google reader from the inbox produces the following page. Here is what I'm trying to do, the status bar says https://www.google.co.in/reader but it is supposed to http://google.co.in/reader

The SSL certificate applies only to Google.com and not for Google.co.in.


Firefox redirected me to an error page which clearly explains the issue,


Internet explorer 7.0 managed to tolerate and showed me the right content but with a Certificate Error in its location bar.


hmm hope Google will fix this bug . . . .