Google Announced To Ditch IE6

If you are new to this, let me tell you: “Internet Explorer 6 is Website Designer Worst Nightmare”. This is not a subjective opinion because most of CSS styling in IE 6 just doesn’t work! When you think you are handling your websites design beautifully in other browser, previewing in IE 6 might ruin your mood. But that’s not always the reason why IE 6 is hated. Apparently, massive security breach around the world is caused by IE 6. Even Microsoft, the company behind IE, decided to stop supporting IE 6 and asked their users to upgrade to the latest version.

Lately, the biggest company that suffer the most from IE 6 security breach is Google. Not only because of the recent attack in China, but also because the latest development of browsing technologies require all browsers to keep up with the standard. Obviously, IE 6 won’t make it anymore, however their predecessors can (IE 7+). That’s why they have decided to discard IE6 support to their apps beginning from Google Docs and Google Sites.

This is a big news to web designers around the world, because the biggest company in the internet history will definitely make a massive influence to all people in the world. Even though IE7 still has CSS bugs here and there, it doesn’t matter as much as IE 6. I hope that this sound reaches internet users in my country, since more than 50% of it still using IE6. The percentage is declining, but I hope this news accelerate it a little .