Google barra ie6 em 2010
Recebi agora um email da GoogleApps informando que eles vão suspender o suporte à ie6 no Apps, e depois do GoogleDocs.
A partir de primeiro de março, ie6 fora. Ainda em 2010 vão barrar ie6 também para Mail e Calendar. A partir desta semana vão botar um aviso nos sites para as pessoas trocarem o navegador.
O ie6 foi lançado em 2001 (9 anos atrás) e tem conhecidas vulnerabilidades de segurança e virus. As alternativas (Chrome, Firefox, Opera) são todas gratuitas e não dependem do windows update (para quem "não pode" atualizar o windows).
Em média, depois de fazer um site fico no mínimo 30% do tempo ajustando ele para funcionar em ie6.
Como disse o Braz: "ja era hora de alguma empresa grande de internet fazer isso"
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