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ditojim on Oct 18, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: New $250 Chromebook

Google Apps uses a ton of HTML5. For this reason, they recently discontinued support for Internet Explorer 8: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/our-plans-to-support-m...

What other "web apps" work better these days than Google's? What is your basis for saying Google's apps don't have advanced HTML5 capabilities? Have you heard of Offline Google Drive for example? How do you think they pull that off? HTML5...

esrauch on Oct 19, 2012 [–]

The page you linked to says they are discontinuing support for IE7 not IE8.

ditojim on Oct 19, 2012 | [–]

good catch...that's last year's announcement. here is the IE8 announcement: http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/09/supporting-mod...

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