[Laszlo-dev] Google phasing out support for IE6 in 2010 for Google Docs, gMail and Calendar

[Raju Bitter]

The corresponding blog post: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/01/modern-browsers-for-modern-applications.html

On Feb 2, 2010, at 8:38 AM, Raju Bitter wrote:

> I just got a message from the GoogleApps customers 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.
> 
> That's the good thing about Google, they can put a lot of pressure on Microsoft.
> 
> - Raju