Google Apps Phases Out Support For IE6

[Apoptosis]

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

[DMB2000uk]

Bout time someone forced users of IE6 to upgrade. Now if only the rest of the web would follow suit and refuse to display websites if the users are still running IE6

Dan

[Illuminati]

Also interesting that Google plans on using more HTML5 features. From what I've heard, HTML5 is a bit of a controversy right now since Microsoft is trying to strong-arm their influence into the HTML5 standard by not implementing it. The rest of the alternative browsers seem to be implementing it as it stands in a move to force IE to implement the current standard as well... Chrome, Firefox and Safari all have some support for HTML5 in their latest releases.