Some of you will know that we removed support for IE6 last year. Most of you wouldn’t have noticed an difference.
We were one of the few design and development firms around the world that said enough is enough. Have a look at our web app KaffeeBreak, if your using IE6 we tell you to upgrade. Some of the features that are implemented in our app won’t work on the IE6 browser. I’m not going to go into specifics about what is wrong with IE6, simply because I don’t have enough time.
Anyway over the weekend reports started coming through that Google is dropping it’s support for IE6. First up will be it’s Google Docs apps and then it will filter through to the rest of it’s services.
Now that Google has come out and said no more IE6, you can be assured that the rest of the worlds tech firms will slowly follow.
What does this mean if you are running IE6?
It’s quite hard to say. Chances are that some of the the applications functions won’t work and you’ll probably come across some layout issues as well.
Changing your browser isn’t actually that difficult, and for those of you who are going to mention things like, security, compatibility, etc… Let me ask you how secure you think an 8-9 year old web browser is, and for the second one Google has proven that compatibility is out the window now.
Your two options are FireFox or Internet Explorer 8. I suggest you upgrade now before you start having major issues.