Looking forward

Google recently announced they are officially dropping Internet Explorer 6 from the list of supported browsers for users of Google Apps.

Unfortunately, they’re continuing to support IE7, a browser that is only marginally better than IE6 at rendering pages.

Ultimately, the goal of getting users to upgrade is to help Web developers save weeks of additional time spent making a site compatible with older browsers. Not very much of this time will be saved until the majority of users have upgraded to IE8.

Instead of, “we’re dropping IE6, but still support IE7,” all companies in a position of influence should say, “we’re dropping IE6, so you should upgrade to IE8!”

Let’s keep the ball rolling… not just give it a push up the hill.