With tens of millions of users, Gmail is arguably one of Google’s most successful projects to date. Besides just being cool and usually fast to access, another of the reasons Gmail has done so well is because of how it retains cross-browser and cross-platform functionality with people being able to access most of Gmail features regardless of what OS or browser they are using.
Considering the challenges to develop for legacy browsers that barely keep up with standards, it seems that Google has “preferred†browsers in mind and is officially steering people away from using Internet Explorer with Gmail.
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