Originally written by Luigi Montanez of the Sunlight Labs, a group of civic hackers. Rewrited by Stanley. Copyright 2009.
Google Chrome Frame is an open source plug-in that brings HTML5 and other open web technologies to Internet Explorer. See the developer's guide for more on implementation.
This middleware injects snippets of code into every outgoing HTML response, which only affects Internet Explorer users.
At the beginning of the <head>, enable Chrome Frame if installed:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="chrome=1">
Rendres new page to prompt the user to install Chrome Frame (only when it's not yet installed) with following body section:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/chrome-frame/1/CFInstall.min.js"></script>
<div id="cf-placeholder"></div>
<script>CFInstall.check({node: "cf-placeholder"});</script>
The user will be presented with a blank page displaying the official Chrome Frame installation page.
To use in your Rails app, place lib/rack/chrome_frame.rb in lib/rack.
Then in environment.rb:
config.middleware.use "Rack::ChromeFrame"
Or in the config.ru (config/rack.rb) rackup file of your Sinatra (Merb) app:
require 'chrome_frame'
use Rack::ChromeFrame
That's all there is to it. Fire up your app, View Source on any page, and see the magic.
You can customize middleware behavior by passing some optional parameters:
use Rack::ChromeFrame, {:minimum => 8.0} # will prompt only users with older IE version than 8.0
or
use Rack::ChromeFrame, {:destination => "http://www.github.com"} # will pass this option to CFInstall.check() JS method
To run the tests:
cd spec
spec chrome_frame_spec.rb