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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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I am very excited. I expect to see some neat changes in the coming year. Hopefully this will help spur people on to no longer support these old browsers. Go Google!

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January 31, 2010

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I found some cool brushes for Gimp at blendfu and just kinda spattered together this image. I think its kinda cool.

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January 28, 2010

Why I use Google's Chromium

I like new things, so when Google released Chromium in September of 2008, I was excited. I wanted to try it out, so I did. Now, I am a Windows user who wants to be a Mac user but doesn't have the cash. Not really, I just want the visual candy of the Mac on my linux box and its getting there. Anyways, I don't like Windows. I haven't for some time now. So I use Ubuntu Linux. The linux version of Chromium did not come out for some time, at least a stable release, until June of 2009. I tried Chromium several times over its short lifetime. I kept going back to Firefox though, for the extensions. Then one day I found out that Chromium has extensions! Yay! This put me over the top. Here is my short list of why I like Chromium.

1. It is fast!

http://eddieringle.com/comparing-chromium-and-firefox-35-36-37-nightlies-javascript-performance/

2. It is sleek. The tabs are at the top. The address bar and other buttons are just beneath the tabs, then the web page. Links and other info pops up from the bottom when you hover over them. Downloads don't appear in a seperate window, but at the bottom. The chrome in Chromium is simple and appealing.

3. Each tab is a seperate process. Meaning one tab can't crash the others. http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/process-models

4. The tab width stays the same when closing tabs. This allows you to close those 16 million tabs without hunting for the x button. http://blog.chromium.org/2009/01/tabbed-browsing-in-google-chrome.html

5. It has cool developer tools. I didn't even have to install firebug. http://www.chromium.org/devtools

6. It has lots of useful extensions, albeit not as many as Firefox. https://chrome.google.com/extensions

Extensions I use in Chromium

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January 26, 2010