My Ban Microsoft Internet Explorer campaign continues, and even my beloved Google are joining the ranks. Thanks Google

I was very pleased to see this in my inbox this morning, hopefully this will help to phase out more out dated clunky browsers.

“Dear Google Apps admin,

In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 ​as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.

We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.

Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.

Starting this week, users on these older browsers will see a message in Google Docs and the Google Sites editor explaining this change and asking them to upgrade their browser. We will also alert you again closer to March 1 to remind you of this change.

In 2009, the Google Apps team delivered more than 100 improvements to enhance your product experience. We are aiming to beat that in 2010 and continue to deliver the best and most innovative collaboration products for businesses.

Thank you for your continued support!

Sincerely,

The Google Apps team

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Please help spread the word to ban the use of IE and recommend the use of web standards compliant browsers the likes of

1. Firefox
2. Chrome
3. Safari

I use all of these across both PC and Mac they are in order of my preference, but I have to say I only use Firefox more because of it’s advanced features it has available, through the huge add-ons library.

But for those that want simplicity I would definately recommend Googles Chrome. Make sure you have a copy of Firefox just incase you come across an old school website that is quirky and wont display properly in chrome I have found a couple. But honestly  if you can’t view a page in either of these it’s not worth looking at anyway.

Please ditch IE today your thank me once you make the step.

Enjoy and be inspired Richard Branson

Ok I’ve been online since 1999 and been designing websites for others since 2004. However despite a few half hearted attempts at a personal website/blog however you consider sites like this I have always failed miserably to produce anything of substance.

Basically life has always gotten in the way, work, sports, hobbies, learning all these things have kept me extremely busy and not being the most literate of self confessed geeks, I’ve always floundered at the first hurdle of putting pen to paper (well tapping of the keys).

Finally getting my iPhone :-)

However at last I feel my life and technology has finally come to a equilibrium as now sitting on the verge of adding the superb iPhone 3Gs to my list of gadgets (now that Vodafone have finally got the rights to sell it on their network), I now feel ready to be able to properly maintain my own personal website on the World Wide Web.

So drive in and stay tuned, I’ll be updating this site daily to detail the passions that fill up my life. At the moment these currently fall under the following banners. Tech, Green Living, Marketing & Wellbeing.

Enjoy & be inspired Richard Branson