Google Apps dropping support for older browsers
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Google Apps dropping support for older browsers
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Re: Google Apps dropping support for older browsers
#2You know sometimes it really annoys me that I work somewhere that only supports IE7. Good thing that jobs thread came up today.
Re: Google Apps dropping support for older browsers
#3You know sometimes it really annoys me that I work somewhere that only supports IE7. Good thing that jobs thread came up today.
Count yourself lucky. Amongst our enterprise-level customers, IE6 (yes, 6, you read that right) is still the majority of page hits.
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#4Interesting. These aren't really what most people would consider older browsers.
It looks like two years is their support cutoff, based on when FF 3.5 came out.
Re: Google Apps dropping support for older browsers
#5You know sometimes it really annoys me that I work somewhere that only supports IE7. Good thing that jobs thread came up today.
Count yourself lucky. Amongst our enterprise-level customers, IE6 (yes, 6, you read that right) is still the majority of page hits.
Hopefully moves like this from big names like Google will help convince these enterprise companies to make the switch.
Wait, who am I kidding, that's just wishful thinking.
Re: Google Apps dropping support for older browsers
#6wohoo :)
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#7Opera is a good browser. Also IE7 "has the chops".
More BS from Google. I thought they had a clue, but apparently not.
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#8Dropping support for older browsers shows why Google Apps will continue to struggle against Microsoft products for government contracts such as was the case recently in San Francisco. Large organizations get locked into legacy OS's for many reasons - example government agencies who bought and rely on geospatial data in Autodesk Mapguide format.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapguide
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&...
And yes that is a plug-in for Netscape that is still available!
Re: Google Apps dropping support for older browsers
#9This is damned good. If organisations continue transitioning, hopefully it'll up the pressure to keep updating browser versions and internal resources.
Re: Google Apps dropping support for older browsers
#10Sad to see they don't even mention Opera. I don't use it, but it should run google apps without problems.
Also i know very big companies that still use IE6, sadly. For those people stuck without admin access and ancient browsers: Give Firefox Portable a try, it saved my day last week ;)
Apart from that, go google go! I like this move and more websites should just do this..