If there’s one thing that FirstFound’s web development team hate, it’s having to jump through hoops to make new designs work on ancient browsers. And it looks like Google’s developers feel the same way.
As of August 1st 2011, the following browsers will no longer be supported by Google:
- Internet Explorer 7 (and by extension IE6) – first launched in October 2006
- Safari 3 – first launched in June 2007
- Firefox 3.5 – first launched in June 2009
If you’re still using one of these browsers , you’ll see reduced functionality when you try and use Google’s calendar, documents or Talk services.
The announcement comes after Google’s engineers decided that they wanted to exploit the latest browser technologies in order to bring further innovations in the same vein as Google Instant. As these older browsers can’t support HTML5 technology, having to build compatible products would hamstring developers and lead to inferior products.
Analytics show that the majority of FirstFound Blog readers won’t be affected by this, with only a few percent of you using ‘obsolete’ browsers. But if you’re one of the stubborn few, we recommend downloading the latest versions of Firefox, or Google’s own Chrome browser.
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