Google Microsoft browser battle heats up

Google had decided to take on Microsft in the browser war by launching Chrome. But just as we thought the craze for Chrome was dying out, Google had other ideas and there is now a twist in the story.

As per Google, its new ambitious and highly anticipated real-time communication platform viz. Google Wave does not seem to work well with Internet Explorer. To rectify the same Google has come out with Google Chrome Frame, a Google plug-in for Internet Explorer that seamlessly brings Google Chrome’s open web technologies and speedy JavaScript engine to Internet Explorer.

It seems Wave is Google's newest weapon in the browser war against Microsoft.

On first login to Google Wave, Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 users will see this message:

Following is mentioned on the Google Wave blog
"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."