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hunsonisgroovy:

jaredm:

I feel that we have crossed a line. It’s not just about the regular IE 6 complaining, it’s about companies openly stating that Internet Explorer just doesn’t cut it and that it’s time, from a financial, sanity and best-for-the-web standpoint, to demand more.

We don’t really know the impact that Google Wave might have or the popularity it may achieve, but the main takeaway for me here is that Google is taking a stand against terrible, non-compliant software - while promoting their own browser.

I wish the agency where I work could do the same, but the sad thing is that the majority of our clients are forced to use IE6 by their corporate IT department.  I’m shocked that a certain local high-tech company uses such obsolete software.  But hey, they specialize in processors, not websites.

Thanks for the link, Mark.

It’s nice to see Google take the initiative to either exclude IE users or convince them to change to a more “web-friendly” browser.

Yay for Google. It’s long past time to kill off IE6 by force. I am so sick of the argument that companies can’t let people use a modern browser because the drop-down menus on the vacation-request form on their shoddy intranet application was optimized by a short-sighted developer to use IE6-specific code. The companies that have a corporate IT department with the knowledge and wherewithal to police users’ desktop software also have either the staff or the funds to fix their goddamn internal web pages. If nothing else, take a week’s worth of the obstructionist CIO’s overblown salary and hire an outside shop to overhaul the intranet.