I just got this email from Google telling me what browsers they will continue to support. Thankfully, IE6 is not one of them.
IE6 is the bane of every web developer living today, and my friends Nick and Jim are doing their part to kill it as well. While I understand that there are many companies out there that have custom-built apps that have software that will only run in IE (I think they call them active x controls or something), it is truly time to upgrade and move into the modern web era.
Today Google is helping us in our quest to cease building support for IE6 into our web apps (though I know many of us don’t support it anyhow). Here’s the full text of the email I just got.
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. 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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All I can say is, thank you Google.
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