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Google Apps to stop supporting old browsers
« on: January 30, 2010, 08:56:08 PM »
It appears an email is being sent out to the administrators of Google Apps accounts informing them that support for legacy browsers is going to be discontinued. Specifically, IE6 is being called out, but Google specifies that only Internet Explorer 7.0, Firefox 3.0, Google Chrome 4.0, Safari 3.0 -- and all newer versions of these browsers -- will continue to be supported.

This is great news, as it will lead to more rapid deployment of updates and features to the Google Apps, and will hopefully also lead to speedier performance from them.

Though we haven't yet received this email we expect to see it any day. An old DLS blogger (Adam!) gave us the tip.

Read on to see the full content of Google's browser support email.

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 next 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