I would say all web designers hate MS IE6. It simply isn’t compliant with standards and people spend a lot of time fart-arsing around trying to make their sites look right in IE6. I personally am getting where I just say “Too bad – upgrade. Get a real browser like Firefox.”
Google has taken a stand here and hopefully this is the start of the end for this piece of shit. Email I got today….
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.
Sweet little personal media player with full HD 1080p output and a touchscreen. Supposedly will handle all video & audio formats and ebooks! Amazing price – Viewsonic spokesman quotes a MSRP of $199. Oh boy! Available March.
BTW – great Viewsonic spokesperson. Has all the information at his fingertips and doesn’t oversell. Reminds me of my friend Charlie Fowler who has been selling all his life – could sell anything.
Les says “Hurrah for eBay!” In Nov I bought this Dual HD case from some guy on eBay. It arrives and doesn’t work. I check into it and maybe I need smaller hard drives so I buy two more hard drives. THEY don’t work neither. So I axe him for money back and he sayeth “No”. So I sayeth “U R Bad!” I have bought two original HD that do not fit and now I have TWO MORE!
Then I try eBay Resolution but they got their nickers in a twist and thought I hadn’t received the item – which of course I had. So they found in his favour. To cut a long story short I had given up but thought WTF I’ll try eBay one more time and lo & behold sayeth eBay but here is your refund! Huzzah for me!
FYI It was the first time I had gotten stiffed on eBay and I have been on there from the get-go and have thpent many a penny – asketh my wife….
Apple Insider (Gettit?!) examines why Macs are virtually free of Malware and all the rest of the crap that made pre-windows 7 so painful. Yes I am a fanboi.
http://ffffound.com/ is pretty cool. You will see images that inspire and amuse. However, I guarantee within five clicks you will be looking at some girl’s twat at 300 DPI. It’s the way of the web…
