Google Phasing Out IE6 Support
Over the last 72 hours you may have heard numerous victory cries from long suffering web designers & developers. At the end of January, Google joined the long growing list of companies ceasing support for older browsers such as IE6 by officially announced that they were phasing out their support of the browser, beginning with Google Docs and Google Sites from the 1st of March. As a result, users of IE6 will find that key functionality within these Google services will not function properly. If that’s not a major wake-up call for organisations still dragging the ball on the cost of upgrading key software, then they will soon find themselves left far behind.
The web has evolved in the last ten years, from simple text pages to rich, interactive applications including video and voice. Unfortunately, very old browsers cannot run many of these new features effectively. So to help ensure your business can use the latest, most advanced web apps, we encourage you to update your browsers as soon as possible. There are many choices:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0+
Mozilla Firefox 3.0+
Google Chrome 4.0+
Safari 3.0+2010 is going to be a great year for Google Apps and we want to ensure that everyone can make the most of what we are developing. Please take the time to switch your organization to the most up-to-date browsers available.
View the full post over at the official Google blog.
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