Internet Explorer 6 Bye bye

Today I got an email from Google saying that they will be phasing out support for "Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0". Thanks Google for making designers happy.

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.

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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.

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Sincerely,
The Google Apps team


This really made my day. Thanks Google!
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Feb 04, 2010
Andrew Abogado said...
Me too!...

I was just about to post this; scheduled this weekend. But since you've done it already, thanks anyway. Posterous bookmark, here I come. :)

Seriously, I'm very much happy with this move by Google. This should educate web users to upgrade to standards-based browsers. Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully, so web designers will soon have a better life coding & designing with standards.

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