Big news on the IE front, as the 800-pound gorilla of the Web announced that it’s going to start phasing out IE6 support next month:
Many other companies have already stopped supporting older browsers like Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers. We’re also going to begin phasing out our support, starting with Google Docs and Google Sites. As a result you may find that from March 1 key functionality within these products — as well as new Docs and Sites features — won’t work properly in older browsers.
Meanwhile, noting that IE6 was the weak link in the Chinese hacks on Google, a petition in the UK government is calling for an abandonment of IE6.
In light of those attacks, France and Germany advised their citizens to switch from IE to a different browser altogether; the UK government, in the person of “Lord West of Spithead”*, said that simply upgrading to the latest version of IE would be sufficient.
* no, seriously, that’s his name.
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