So after all Google has developed its Chrome Frame plugin for Internet Explorer for a good reason: enabling the majority of users – which are unfortunately still using Internet Explorer (6,7 AND 8) to have a better experience with HTML5-based websites.
Lars Rasmussen posted on the Google Wave Developer Blog that Wave will inform Internet Explorer users to install Chrome Frame for a better user experience. Reason being that Internet Explorer is just too slow at interpreting JavaScript and DOM Manipulations – features Wave heavily relies on. IE’s support of modern web standards such as HTML5 is pretty poor, too.
I’ve been experiencing the same issues with IE over and over for myself – yet in a smaller dimension: Every hour (and it have been many hours) a developer spends on the specific quirks on IE (which of course are different per each version) and to fix them for their application is not spent on adding cool new features or bug fixes which affect general issues.
Since this has been a problem for so a long time I hope this finally helps to fix this issue.