Crusade against IE6 begins

Internet giant Google has joined up with a number of web developers in requesting Microsoft abandon support for its IE6 browsing software.

The company said its Google Apps and other Google Sites would begin phasing out support for the browser starting in one month.

“Many other companies have already stopped supporting older browsers like Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 as well as browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers,” Google Apps senior product manager Rajen Sheth said in a blog post. “We’re also going to begin phasing out our support, starting with Google Docs and Google Sites on March 1.”

Sheth wrote on the blog post the company was abandoning support because IE6 cannot process some modern coding properly. Instead, he recommended users try out IE7, Firefox, Safari or Google’s own browser Chrome.