It was last year when Google
Inc(NASDAQ:GOOG)’s Vice President of Engineering, Venkat Panchapakesan had
announced the company’s plan to restrict support to latest browsers across
Google Apps. In order to support latest web apps, support for web browsers that
are not compatible with technologies like HTML5 had to be ceased. Instances
that were given back in that time included features like drag-and-drop file
uploading and desktop notifications that require browsers supporting HTML5.
Hence, Google had arrived at a
decision to support only the existing and previous major version of a web
browser. When a new major version of a browser is launched, support for the
third oldest version gets ceased on its own.
The policy had changed on 1st
August, 2011 and moved several old supported browsers to the no-longer
supported mound. At that time, this included Safari 3, Firefox 3.5 and Internet
Explorer 7.
it would not be very long when
Internet Explorer 8 will be included to that list as Microsoft works on releasing
IE 10 along with its Windows 8 OS on 26th October, 2012. Google will
stop supporting IE 8 that very day.
The change leaves the users of
Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP in a predicament. As there is no version of
IE that they can upgrade to from the version 8, they are left with no choice
but an unsupported web browser. This, however, does not mean that there is no
way to resolve the issue. Depending on the workplace, they may or may not be
accessible to people.
There is an option that some
users of IE 8 may want to consider. Google Chrome Frame is a plug-in for IE 6-9
that helps in accessing Google Chrome browser in IE. The technology is
available as a beta version as of the moment. This may stop installations on a
number of systems.
Most of apps and features are
likely to operate fine on IE 8 for some time to come.
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