Chrome Frame - the end of IE hacks?

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/21/google_chrome_frame_installs_without_admin_rights/

If you visit a site that has been set up to do so, it will launch Chrome Frame rather than Microsoft's native engine. And users can set Chrome Frame as their default engine via a registry key. Google also provides tools that allow websites to readily encourage users to install Chrome Frame, and some sites, including Yahoo!, are already doing so. Google's Gmail uses Chrome Frame, and the company says the email service runs 30 per cent faster on the plug-in than on older version of IE

If I am reading this right, then its possible for the site to force the clients browser to run the Google Frame plug-in? Basically, could this spell the end of IE6, 7 & 8 hacks for us web developers?

 

[redeye_uk]

The web site prompts the user the download the plug-in and the user also doesnt need admin rights to install said plug-in.

It's the kind of thing web illiterate users would click "yes" to if it suddenly popped up.

 

[redeye_uk]

Does anyone here actually still support IE6? If so, why, given the fairly low usage?

Client will specify it. At the end of the day they are paying your wage.

Although I tend to demand a significant amount more cash if they are insistant on wanting IE6 & 7 support.