Finally! Internet explorer 6.0 support will be phased out by Google. Hopefully other big web publishers will follow suit. This is a huge victory for web designers/developers across the interwebs:
“Dear Google Apps admin,
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. Â This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. Â 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. Â 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. Â 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. Â 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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Finally, over the many years of changes, i have always found IExplorer to be so buggy
Oh thank god!!! I am currently designing a site for a company, and the last time I did it, I had to put in at least another 10 hours fixing code so it would show up right in IE6. Thank you Google for being awesome!!
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It’s about damn time! IE 6 is completely insecure/obsolete/pointless in this day and age, yet it still thrives in the computers of those who won’t even listen to the constant nagging of Windows Update begging them to let it upgrade everything for them (and on the computers in big corporations with lazy IT departments). More big companies need to do things like this to euthanize that old dinosaur once and for all. Thank you, Google, for taking one small step for web developers, and one giant leap for mankind.
This is awesome news! As a web developer, I hated having to add ridiculously obscene code just for the 1% of people who are stuck with that monstrosity of a browser. I think most designers/devs have finally put their foot down and moved on.
Good choice, Google!
agreed, hopefully everyone else follows suit now to get that garbage out of here! Big step.