永不放弃

自2月2日以来,几个邮件陆续收到Google Apps team发过来的邮件,主要内容就是GOOGLE的这些应用将不再支持IE6及其它低版本浏览器.
而2010年1月份的全球浏览器市场调查显示,IE8、Google Chrome领跑1月份浏览器市场.因此,IE6在最近一段时间被爆出的持续发生的安全漏洞就显得格外刺眼,也有传闻说微软准备强制用户升级IE6,只是不知道是不是真会实现? IE6是2001年10月发布的,到现在已经走过了九个年头,其间一直有在更新,MICROSOFT之后也发布了IE7,IE8,甚至现在已经开始研发IE9,可是,为何不对一款如此之旧,安全系数如此之低的浏览器进行强制升级呢?
这次GOOGLE APPS 率先开始不再支持IE6 ,这个消息的作用是显而易见的, 相信微软也不会无动于衷让用户自动流失去安装非IE的浏览器, 可能会因此强制用户升级IE6,那么果真如此的话对于网页设计师来说,调试浏览器兼容的工作量会减轻很多很多.

以下是Google Apps Team 发送过来的邮件内容:
Title: Important notice: Google Apps browser support

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 this 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

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