On Feb 3, 2010, at 11:27 AM, SteveCraft wrote:
To an extent, I see this as a business opportunity for someone with some money+guts+meda savvy.
I notice you did not include "serious programming chops" in there, because this isn't an idle business decision on Google's part, nor is it some classist desire to ignore the poor marginalized Newton Users trying to run Google Apps on a Newton web browser (which I suspect NEVER worked), it's because there's a crapload of work involved in simultaneously upgrading and improving the Google Apps, and patching that code to account for the deficiencies and inconsistencies and security holes presented by all those old browsers.
A far more fruitful idea for a third party would be to develop a simple, secure web browser that DOES support modern stuff, that also runs on those old platforms.
Something that's going completely unsaid here is the major presumption on Dan's part that this will affect Gmail and Google Groups, both of which can run in pure HTML mode, rather than the AJAX-dependent Google Apps.
These announced browser restrictions ONLY apply to Google Apps. Dan made (imo) an unwarranted assumption that the will in the future apply to everything Google does.
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