Richard Strucke

Google drops the hammer on Internet Explorer 6

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.