Google Chrome Frame literally puts Google Chrome and its standards-supporting HTML5 features inside Internet Explorer…so long as you have admin privileges.

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Kelson writes “Have you noticed that there haven’t been many updates to Gears in a while? That’s because Google has decided to focus instead on similar capabilities in the emerging HTML5 standard: local storage, database, workers and location cover similar functionality, but natively in the web browser. Of course, since Gears and HTML APIs aren’t exactly the same, it’s not a simple drop-in replacement, so they’ll continue supporting the current version (more…)

bonch writes “Following in YouTube’s footsteps, Vimeo has now introduced its own beta HTML5 video player, and like YouTube, it uses H.264 and requires Safari, Chrome, or ChromeFrame. The new player doesn’t suffer the rebuffering problems of the Flash version when clicking around in the video’s timeline, and it also loads faster. HTML5 could finally be gaining some real momentum.”

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