Since the release of Internet Explorer 6 in August of 2001, web designers and developers world wide had been petitioning Microsoft to update the application to better handle web standards. You could even make a case that IE6 had been de facto contributor to popularize the turn-of-the-century web standards revolution. A fight that continues today with recent incarnations of Internet Explorer; the most widely used web browser to not fully support some of the most basic web standards.

Let the party begin March 1st. Google plans to drop Google Docs and Google Sites support for IE6, as well as Google’s own Chrome 3, along with Firefox 2, and Safari 2 — can I get an amen?! It’s my opinion this will be the final blow to spur our less inspired friends, colleagues, and grandmothers to upgrade to a modern web browser, and finally release my fellow web design brethren from IE cross-site support slavery.

For more info, be sure to read up on Google’s latest move at the Official Google Enterprise Blog.

Today, well actually it slipped yesterday, Google officially released news about their up and coming web browser Google Chrome. Chrome is another step in creating a cloud computing OS, apparently through a browser, based entirely on open source code. Chrome is based on the existing rendering engine Webkit with Firefox underpinnings, Google also created its own JavaScript Virtual Machine called V8, and it the browser will incorporate Google’s Gears project. Get more details on Google’s Blog »

It feels as though half my life has passed to final see the day when dynamic flash content, wrapped in SWF’s, can be crawled and indexed by Google and Yahoo! search spiders. In short, SWF searchability is finally here. Alas, the day has come, and I once again have a renewed interest in Flash.

Adobe’s has produced a FAQ document on their new initiative to help search engines index the dynamic content of SWF’s. While they don’t go into detail, Adobe explains.. (more…)

Every now and again, I visit the Fuct site to see what Erik’s been up to as of late. Without surprise, a defiant, yet moving video “intro page” was in my face and making a sharp statement. Its brilliant, but that’s not what I’m on about here. Today I also came across a feature on the Google search results page, a link to “Skip Intro” following the main page link (see: search result Yuasa).

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