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IE6 - Is Your Dealer Still Using Internet Explorer 6?

Jeff,

I'm so glad you posted this topic. Yes, there are still a few dealers using IE 6. Web Control will work in that environment but we don't support it. In fact, we had dealer that would not switch because too many of their other applications would not work on newer browsers.
 
Yeah but some OEMs have web programs that only work with IE6 or IE7 and the dealers have no choice...

If something only works in IE6 or IE7 only it must have some really nasty javascript or HTML that doesn't come close to following W3C standards. Some programs also use ActiveX controls... luckily Silverlight is alleviating a lot of the need for that.

Yes, certainly that is well known Matt. Don't you think it is a problem that someone has to download another program just to have their app run in a browser? Most of the browser issues can be alleviated by building in a modern framework. Of course...that is not easy when you have a legacy system that you've been building on top of since the 90s.
 
This made it's way to my inbox this morning.

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