In what could easily be a April fools joke, but is not, Google has released the Google Chrome Frame plug-in for IE6 and up. Basically, it switches out the IE HTML/JavaScript engines with Chrome’s, effectively making IE6 equal to Chrome. Developers have to insert a meta tag in the header of their HTML to tell IE to use the Chrome plug-in, so the Chrome engines only kick in when required, not all the time. So all those legacy web sites that were written specifically for IE6 will still work (in theory.) Tech Crunch has the story.

As someone who works for a B2B company where a large percentage of our audience are still using IE6, I really hope this catches on. IE6 has become on the bane of the existence of both web developers and designers alike.