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Google tells users to drop IE6
- GrandMasterBirt 18y agoI can finally quit supporting IE6 sometime soon. I am so happy!
- zitterbewegung 18y agoHopefully this will be the KO hit to IE6 cruft.
- joechung 18y agoIt won't be. Gmail isn't as popular as Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail. The death knell for IE 6 will be when Windows XP disappears from the desktop.
- whatusername 18y agobingo. While I'm sure there are some people running with gmail/ie6 (aside from those at work) - I would be guessing it's in the minority - most of the people I meet with gmail addresses are using another browser. (Most of the people I meet with hotmail addresses are using ie6)
- KB 18y agoUnfortunately if you are like me and develop products used by the military, you'll have to continue supporting IE6.
- cconstantine 18y agoA couple jobs ago I worked with DoD types so I know your pain... except that IE6 is shockingly recent for the military to be using ;)
- koraybalci 18y agowell, what do you expect? for years, ms did the same for FF from their msdn and some other product pages, didn't they? For years, incompetent developers did the same too, ignoring FF. There is a new competitor in town, and actually, they are probably right with their claims (that IE6 is weak), anyone disagree with that?
- vaksel 18y agoIE6 will still be around 5 years from now...solely due to corporations not upgrading their shit.
- jhancock 18y agoWould be nice if we could solely blame corps for this as its a relatively easier problem to solve. Unfortunately, "joe home user", even with genuine Windows installs, do not update their PCs. The little update notifier just sits there and joe user takes no action.
- caustic 18y agoIt would be nice to see Yahoo does the same thing.
- bprater 18y agoOne word: "Freaking Awesome!"
- MikeW 18y agoOh how I wish I could do that. The majority of people (college students) who access my webapp do so on IE6 because: - They're accessing it during class time or hogging the computer labs/library throughout the day and IE6 is the only browser on the majority of the machines on campus. - IE7 is on a smaller percentage (a quarter perhaps) of machines within the campus - still a hefty percentage - no alternative browsers anywhere. - Their home laptops have never been windows-updated and still run IE6, or those that have WU'd run IE7. The only times Chrome, Safari or FF hit the app is when the computing students use it - and they tend to not be my demographic because they don't store every detail of their life on social networks whereas the IE6 loving social-studies students do.
- jackowayed 18y agoIf Google's site as a whole would tell everyone to upgrade their browser, then we would actually get somewhere in killing IE6. Gmail is a small and fairly tech-savvy minority of Internet users, while google users overall are most Internet users, including those that might still be using IE6.
- petercooper 18y agoIf Google's really serious about this, why not have a yellow bar or something on EVERY Google page viewed by an IE 6 user? I think most of us would thank them for it, if it worked.