Well, it's an interesting idea but I don't know if there will be enthusiasm for supporting Vista/XP. In any case, you should file an enhancement request so this can be evaluated and won't be forgotten: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:07 AM, Jared Albers <[email protected]>wrote: > Not sure who the right people to talk to about this is as I understand some > Intel folks are the main contributors for the win32 portion of > cordova-windows. > > I'm curious if anyone has looked at using Google's "Chrome Frame" plugin as > a way to get support for pre-IE9 based windows systems. Although Chrome > Frame won't work out of the box with embedded webviews according to > here< > http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/chrome-frame-getting-started/chrome-frame-faq#TOC-Does-Google-Chrome-Frame-support-.NET-WebBrowser-Maxthon-and-similar-browsers- > >, > it is open-source and under a BSD-style license. > > Chrome Frame feels like it would be a rather clever way to get win32 > support for setups that don't have IE9 or greater (or for web developers > that don't want to rely on the trident rendering engine at all). > > Of course keeping app distributables small is also important since we > wouldn't want to distribute a 30MB+ dependency with each app. To solve > this, the integration could be designed such that the Chrome Frame > framework was downloaded and installed silently in the background and only > when needed/requested. Not the most desirable solution, but perhaps a > necessary evil to gain Windows XP & Vista support. > > Thoughts? > > -Jared >
