Google's web developers must have rejoiced today with Google's public email announcement to Google Apps users that it will no longer be supporting Internet Explorer 6.0 for any of it's services, including services like Google Docs and Google Analytics. Web developers are very familiar with what a pain developing for IE6 is, and how bad bugs Internet Explorer 6.0 can be- it will definitely not be missed.
Quote from Google's email:
"In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance ... 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."
It's true- IE6 is so bad not even Microsoft wants to take any responsibility for it. This will be good for non-savvy non-wev developer types too as IE6 is known to be a walking trojan virus, hijack, malware, adware, spyware basically every other (insert bad prefix)ware in existance.
The truth is, you really should avoid using any version of Microsoft Internet Explorer. More about how scary IE is in general (and why the German government banned it entirely) in a recent post:
Yet Another Scary Reason to Avoid Internet Explorer - Use Firefox or Get Hacked
Posted on
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
by Sean P
filed under