Brad Dyment

I primarily use Google Apps for email hosting, and just received the following message from Google. As of March 1, 2010 they will no longer support Internet Explorer 6! Now if only the web development community could follow suit :( Unfortunately this isn't the case, since IE6 still holds more than 10% of the market share. (http://bit.ly/2WdDGO) Oh well... One day.

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.

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.

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.

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Tracy Worcester's exploration into how factory pig farms mistreat and overcrowd animals, poison residents and workers, destroy rural livelihoods and cause swine flu and pig MRSA.

Watch the full film on YouTube

That's right. A microwavable pre-wrapped baked potatoe - sounds delicious. We sure don't eat the way we used to. While on the topic, if you haven't seen Food Inc, it's a must-see.