IE6, The End is Near
About half of my readers are techie enough to share in this enthusiasm. If you're not in that group, just know that something awful is coming to an end. ...Like the end of of a war. The people - the big people, are killing all support of something horrendous. IE6.
Check out this wonderful email that I (and probably a lot of us) got.
Sweet mother of awesome. Despite Microsoft claiming they're going to support IE6 til like 2014, big sites revolting can only speed along that process. I'm hoping that it will be phased out by the time the POS is a decade old... like XP. As of now, it looks like less than 5% of my site's visitors use IE6 (and only 30% use IE), which is much better than I expected.
Phasing out IE6 and harnessing HTML5. Let's see what happens fo Flash after this... The internet is growing up.
I haven't been this excited about a browser going away since AOL pulled the plug on Netscape back in 03.
Check out this wonderful email that I (and probably a lot of us) got.
Important Notice: Google Apps browser support
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
Sweet mother of awesome. Despite Microsoft claiming they're going to support IE6 til like 2014, big sites revolting can only speed along that process. I'm hoping that it will be phased out by the time the POS is a decade old... like XP. As of now, it looks like less than 5% of my site's visitors use IE6 (and only 30% use IE), which is much better than I expected.
Phasing out IE6 and harnessing HTML5. Let's see what happens fo Flash after this... The internet is growing up.
I haven't been this excited about a browser going away since AOL pulled the plug on Netscape back in 03.