Google apps declares no support for IE6

Google apps is removing support for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) and optimizing their products for the future in favor of newer browsers with faster javascript engines and support for newer advanced features. With such a big company pushing out the old time browser, hopefully it can be enough to get the ball rolling to put it out of production for good. Developers and designers have long been awaiting the demise of IE6 as it is very old and as new browsers support more features and move closer towards web standards developers and designers are having to create separate style sheets and unnecessary programming to keep their websites usable in IE6.  Even Microsoft wants to get rid of IE6 and remove it from our everyday lives. However, it seems as though they are going to support it until the end of support for Microsoft’s Windows XP SP3 scheduled some time in 2014. Anyhow, statistics show there are still quite a few websites using IE6 and Clear Graphix will support it for as long as our customers need us to. Even with only a few percent of users using IE6, a busy E-commerce site could potentially lose out on a large sum of money in making any decision to stop supporting the browser or any browser for that matter.

Developing Service-Oriented AJAX Applications on the Microsoft Platform

Clear Graphix sends our to thanks to our good friend Daniel Larson for the autographed copy of his latest book release Developing Service-Oriented AJAX Applications on the Microsoft Platform. You can pick up a copy here or at your local book store.

The book is aimed towards intermediate to advanced Web Developers using Microsoft technologies. It’s written to guide your transition from ASP.NET to ASP.NET AJAX using WCF Web Services. This book is written with some C#, but primarily Javascript. Visual Basic.NET developers should be able to translate the C# code with ease, as the focus of this book is architectural. Compiled code samples in this book are written with C# and compiled against the 3.5 SP1 framework using Visual Studio 2008 but, you’ll also find a lot of Javascript. Some basic knowledge of C#, ASP.NET, Web Development, and the .NET Framework is not required but, will be helpful. He covers the basics of WCF for AJAX developers and points out some great references along the way.

Congratulations on the new book Daniel. Thanks again! Job well done. =8o)