When we were building the new Basecamp, we wanted the foundation to be built on clean, modern underpinnings to take advantage of all the new wonderful features of HTML5. That meant we have to drop support for older browsers, like IE8, that have little or poor support for the HTML5 technology we are using to make Basecamp awesome for everyone.
But, have no fear! We realize that a lot of people are stuck with IE8 (sometimes even IE7 or, yikes, 6), so we made sure that Chrome Frame works with Basecamp. Chrome Frame is available for IE 6-9 on Windows machines and can usually be installed without admin access.
If you’re stuck with an older version of Explorer, check out Chrome Frame and get yourself a Basecamp account.
Ted
on 03 Apr 12You definitely have to give Microsoft credit for allowing and creating the functionality for others to use plug-in different rendering engines.
Gary Haran
on 03 Apr 12How does the Chrome Frame installation look like for the end user? Is it pretty straightforward?
Michael
on 03 Apr 12Can a dev comment on the “usually without access” part? What would I tell someone if they had a question for their IT department?
Jeffrey R.
on 03 Apr 12Do I need to be an Administrator to install Google Chrome Frame?
from Google Chrome Frame Developer FAQ page
Michael
on 03 Apr 12That’s good enough for me. The kind of place that would lock down the C drive wouldn’t be interested in my services anyway.
Vic
on 03 Apr 12Just a note – As of 4/3/2012 Chrome Frame does not work on 64-bit versions of IE.
http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/chrome-frame-getting-started/chrome-frame-faq#TOC-Does-Google-Chrome-Frame-work-on-64
However, if you run the Chrome Frame install and use the 32-bit version of IE on your Windows machine it will work.
Yuriy Dybskiy
on 03 Apr 12Good decision.
The link to Basecamp sign-up seems to be broken.
Arth ISoft
on 05 Apr 12That’s really great idea.
Latso
on 05 Apr 12Does anyone know of a way to get Google Frame to work in IE5? Our company is still on IE5 because Microsoft does not allow you to “upgrade” to anything under IE8 and our IT dept. worries that jumping so many numbers (from IE5 to IE9) would cause way too many problems to make it worth it.
Gianni Dalerta
on 05 Apr 12Yes our clients that were on basecamp, had a really difficult time using it and crashing their old systems. I would suggest that 37signals do some browser detection and offer your above stated solution on screen. You would not believe almost half our clients are still on antiquated boxes.
Arik Jones
on 05 Apr 12@Gary Haran, Its not any less straightforward than any other application install on Windows.
Ryan Bradley
on 06 Apr 12Great news! But how much longer will IE6 hold us back? Switch already people.
Michal
on 09 Apr 12Thumbs up!! Lets turn IEs out together
Gene Parcellano
on 10 Apr 12Thanks for posting this. I’ve heard about Chrome Frame but never actually tried it. It’s great for me since all our clients use IE6 and up. I’d tear all my hair out if they were still using IE5. Good luck to the other guys.
Thanks for posting, this is brilliant stuff.
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