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TG Daily – Google tells users to drop IE6

John — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:16:02 +0000

Chicago (IL) – Taking a page out of Apple’s book, Google is now urging Gmail users to drop Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) in favor of Firefox or Chrome that, according to the company, run the popular web-based email service “twice as fast.” Google also labels IE6 as an unsupported browser, meaning it fails to run some Gmail features.

TG Daily – Google tells users to drop IE6.

From the Department of Badly Chosen Defaults

John — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:44:13 +0000

Note that all the other browsers use bicubic interpolation for scaling by default, because that’s the only thing that make sense, but IE requires a non-standard CSS extension. So, pictures on this site should be a little smoother for those of you determined to use Internet Explorer.

From the Department of Badly Chosen Defaults – Joel on Software.

IE’s Decline Makes ‘Cross Browser’ More Relevant

John — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:13:03 +0000

Though IE still has a commanding lead in the browser market, 2009 should see continued growth for Firefox, Chrome, and Safari (though Chrome could slow down the growth of other alternative browsers once it has extensions). Internet Explorer, meanwhile, is expected to continue its decline. As browser parity nears (at least in terms of user reach), cross browser and cross platform functionality is becoming more and more important. Already Firefox and Safari have shares of the market too significant to ignore, and Chrome could get to that point in a hurry.

SitePoint » IE’s Decline Makes ‘Cross Browser’ More Relevant.