Following the recent IAW blog by Paul Court 'It's time to say goodbye to IE' search engine giants Google have announced that they will no longer be supporting the Microsoft browser IE6 for their Google Apps Products.
In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.
We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.
Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.
Starting this week, users on these older browsers will see a message in Google Docs and the Google Sites editor explaining this change and asking them to upgrade their browser. We will also alert you again closer to March 1 to remind you of this change.
In 2009, the Google Apps team delivered more than 100 improvements to enhance your product experience. We are aiming to beat that in 2010 and continue to deliver the best and most innovative collaboration products for businesses.
Thank you for your continued support!
Sincerely,
The Google Apps team
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And with recent BBC article
And with recent BBC article "Pressure mounts to phase out Internet Explorer 6" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8492862.stm things must be coming to an end for IE6
IE6 has to go. Peaple have
IE6 has to go. Peaple have been complaining to us that they can't read our magazine that is based on the browser flash plugin that you need for viewing most other sites. They it's our problem??? I'm afraid that this is evidence that it is in fact their browser. But keep feedback coming as nothing is overlooked.
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