For web applications to spring even farther ahead of traditional software, our teams need to make use of new capabilities available in modern browsers. For example, desktop notifications for Gmail and drag-and-drop file upload in Google Docs require advanced browsers that support HTML5. Older browsers just don’t have the chops to provide you with the same high-quality experience.
And with that, Google will end support for older browsers. As of August 1st, Google Apps will only support the current and prior major release of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari on a rolling basis. In other words, each time a new version of one of those browsers is released, Google will begin supporting the new update and stop supporting the third-oldest version.
In particular, Google is killing support for these for these browsers and their predecessors: Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 7, and Safari 3. If you are using one of these older browsers you may have trouble using certain features in Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Docs and Google Sites, and eventually these apps may stop working entirely.
I know there are some people that are ‘stuck’ with an older browser situation, but it never fails to shock me when I think about how many people are still using old browsers.
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