谷歌放弃了IE6/The Google phasing out support for IE6.0

今天收到谷歌的邮件了，告知谷歌各种应用将不再继续支持Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers。
其实不支持IE6不是一个意外，微软在IE6上实施了自己的一系列的标准，这并不合其他浏览器以及W3C标准兼容。以至于开发者需要花费很大经历在IE6的兼容上，就是这样，往往也并不能做到和其他浏览器中页面的统一。显然谷歌已经受够了IE6。
其实广大的网页设计初学者也一样，必须牢记IE6的哪些特性和其他浏览器不一样。已经有设计师发起了LET'S KILL IE6的运动。
其实很多个人博客中都会友好的提示用户升级浏览器。
加入LET'S KILL IE6运动很简单，
在页面中加入如下代码即可：

<!--[if lte IE 6]>	<script src="http://letskillie6.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/letskillie6.zh_CN.pack.js"></script><![endif]-->

 

详见http://www.neoease.com：关于KILL IE6有两个语言的版本，英文：http://www.neoease.com/lets-kill-ie6/；中文：http://www.neoease.com/ie6-must-die/

付邮件部分正文：

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.