Web Browsers : Google joins the kill-IE6 campaign

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If Google had taken its own advice, it might have avoided Chinese hackers
Computerworld – Google has announced that Google Docs will drop support for Microsoft’s nearly nine-year-old Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser starting on March 1.

Ironically, if Google had taken its anti-IE6 advice to heart before hackers broke into its corporate network last year, it might not now be mulling whether to abandon the Chinese search market.

“We’re going to begin phasing out our support, starting with Google Docs and Google Sites,” said Rajen Sheth, senior product manager for Google Apps, in a Friday entry on the company’s enterprise blog. “As a result, you may find that from March 1 key functionality within these products — as well as new Docs and Sites features — won’t work properly in older browsers.” Google Sites is the search engine’s free Web hosting service.

Google’s new list of supported browsers omits IE6, as well as other older programs, including Mozilla’s Firefox 2.0, Apple’s Safari 2.0 and Google’s own Chrome 3.0. IE6 is by far the oldest browser of the bunch, with an August 2001 debut. In comparison, Firefox 2.0 dates to October 2006, Safari 2.0 to April 2005 and Chrome 3.0 to September 2009.

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