Google can drop IE 6 support from it's products, if they see, that their users have modern browsers. But this isn't true for the whole web and all GWT users. Many enterprise customers still want IE 6 support.
You can already drop IE 6 support for your GWT app by using things, IE 6 can't handle. You can use ImageResoures in your CSS, which doesn't work correctly in IE 6. You can use div:hover CSS selector in your code to highlight an element. In IE 6 it isn't working, but it's up to you. So why should GWT Team drop IE 6 support in general? Regards Jan Ehrhardt 2010/3/19 Rade Martinović <[email protected]> > I believe that Service Pack 2 brings IE7 with it. Not installing service > packs is HUGE security risc. > > Basically, I agree with Patrick Tucker here. Getting something to work in > IE6 not only produces huge amount of effort for toolkit developers, but also > for us, the end users of the toolkit. > -- > ~~Rade~~ > > > 2010/3/17 Michail Prusakov <[email protected]> > > -1 >> >> 35% of our customers use ie 6 and probably will be using it for quite >> a while as it comes with XP >> >> On Mar 17, 2:20 pm, Erron <[email protected]> wrote: >> > -1 >> > >> > I'm sure I'm not the only one who still has clients that still use >> > IE6. The population of users still using IE6 is still too big to be >> > disregarded. >> > >> > On Mar 17, 7:45 am, Rocky <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > Since Google started advising its users to drop IE6, and will be >> > > dropping IE6 support from its applications such as GMail, when can we >> > > expect definite break with IE6 support in GWT? >> > >> > > What do you think about dropping IE6 support completely from GWT? It >> > > would make some big changes in code and many workarounds that are >> > > existent in current code would be gone, and code would be a lot >> > > cleaner? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google Web Toolkit" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<google-web-toolkit%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-web-toolkit%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
