Google Chrome Frame versus IE9

I wonder what is more productive: getting employees  configured with Google's Chrome Frame in IE 8 or inviting users to install the Curl.com runtime engine (the Curl RTE) - which path gets a more useful, maintainable, long-term result for a corporate IT requirement to provide a user with some feature?

If Curl 8.0 removes even a click or two from the RTE install procedure ... ;-)

At one time I could have compared creating and maintaining a Google Gears app and a Curl app, but that is not now even moot ...

That leaves JavaFX or AIR or ? Oh yes, Silverlight.  Without DLL's, right?  Without that "DLL Smell" - right?

And why is this Chrome Frame/IE8 vs IE9 Canvas (HTML5) even a question?  Well, why would a business running fine on Windows XP want to move to Windows 7?  Just to get IE 9 ?  Aside from the agenda of corporate IT, what did Vista provide?

One sure thing that IE9 on Windows Vista or 7 guarantees is HD video with hardware-acceleration for employees viewing YouTube on company time.  And that comes just as Intel announces their intent to move the GPU into the CPU.  Oh vey ... why did your employees in Payroll and A/R or A/P need those nvidia 9800 graphics cards?

Or is this for Account Executives video conferencing with prospects?  Not likely.

If the Help Desk gets a better result with remoting to the client under Windows 7 - fine*; but that PC should not be the same one that they use on your company intranet. Nix that idea.  Their old single core CPU box running XP should serve them fine on your network.  Or did you move them up to 64-bit XP ?  And for that matter, why is their box on the company network box not inexpensive hardware running linux without Microsoft Outlook? Or were you in the cloud on that one?

;-)

* But aren't most of the client employees contacting your Help Desk also still running XP ?

The Aule Browser: a simple web browser

Over at our LogiqueWerks pages we have a demo to run or to download of our Aule Browser. No, not "eule" as in OWL, but "aule" as in hall or entry-way ( an name I once suggested for the Io programming language.)

This is a Curl 7.0 browser using the EmbeddedBrowserGraphic class from Curl 6.0

On my Windows with IE8 as my default browser, it loads the Microsoft Trident HTML rendering engine. On linux it may load a Mozilla engine if you have Firefox installed.

It only adds about 1.2 to 1.6 MB to the Curl runtime environment unlike our massive big-brother browsers.

And it will be highly configurable because Curl is also a declarative language like HTML and since version 6.0 has had a stylesheet mechanism.

But Curl also has macros and first-class anonymous functions and traits and multiple-ionheritance and JIT compiles dynamically to machine code and has about a decade as a trusted and secure enterprise environment.

In the Aule Browser, each command button is declared, much as you would in HTML or another declarative language.

Because Curl is able to load packages dynamically, comes with async call built-in and with sub-appelts for background processes, my 5MB of research bookmarks will not choke the browser as they do Maxthon and not make the browser crawl as they do IE8. And that grinding sound on my hardrive while FireFox is loading?

And anything Chrome can do, we can do. So there.

Expect the Aule Browser to evolve as our other LogiqueWerks site-specific browsers evolve: with simple to do templating and configuration for task: research, hobby, eBay, ning, twine ...

To view the demo online or runtime desktop demo, you must first install the Curl Runtime Engine for Windows, Mac or linux. The same Aule Browser curl code will run on all 3 platforms.