Google begins to phase out IE6 support

10 February 2010 Filed under Google

On their Official Google Enterprise Blog, Google announced last week that they intend to begin phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 from March 1 2010, beginning with Google Docs and Google Sites:

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/01/modern-browsers-for-modern-applications.html

Google recently suffered a targeted attack on its Gmail infrastructure, reportedly from China, exploiting a flaw in IE.

Microsoft are continuing support for IE6 until 2014. Many corporate infrastructures are locked into older browser versions due to the huge cost implications of upgrading their intranet applications.

YouTube also intends to phase out support soon, and visitors accessing the site with older versions of certain browsers may see the following banner at the top of the page:

At the time of writing, Internet Explorer 8 is the current version. It becomes time-consuming and expensive to maintain support for older browsers, and here at RO Web Solutions we are phasing out support for IE6 too. Typically our sites will render quite well in IE6 but there may be some small differences in appearance and behaviour. If IE6 compatibility is required then we can of course offer this support for an additional fee.