You'll need to sign into a valid YouTube/Google account and then head to /html5 and click the "Join the HTML5 beta" link at the bottom. (Click on News/Google News Alert.That's all well and good, but what about your lunchtime YouTube fix? If you're using Chrome or Safari on any OS, or Internet Explorer with Google's Chrome Frame installed, you can actually view most videos in their native H.264 format, streaming straight to your browser, through the magic of HTML5. Sign up for the weekly Google newsletter. If plug-ins are an inherent security risk, where does that leave Microsoft technologies like Silverlight? Like this post? Visit the Google Subnet home page for more news, blogs and podcasts. In particular, Google Chrome Frame running as a plug-in has doubled theĪttach area for malware and malicious scripts." The statement then points to phishing and malware data from NSS Labs, a study paid for by Microsoft.įolks in the Twitterverse have pointed out the terrible logic in Microsoft's anti-plug-in position. The statement (which can be found here and here) attributed to a Microsoft spokesperson includes the following nastygram bit, "Given the security issues with plug-ins in general and Google Chrome The gist is that Internet Explorer 8 is a marvel of security enhancements and that plugs-ins generally, and Chrome in particular, offer crummy security. A spokesperson has been sending what I find to be an amusing, vaguely worded secruity risk warning to several journalists in response to Google's Chrome Frame. Wang's blog post is joined by Microsoft's more official push-back campaign.
If Google is going to create a plug-in aimed at Windows users, then it needs to make sure that its plug-in doesn't break the apps Windows users use most. But that doesn't take Google off the hook. It is not a plug-in that is ready for consumer use. Wang doesn't mention that Google has clearly said that the current version of Chrome Frame is an early developer's release, being shared for folks to use with their Web sites.
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