Google Reader updated to stop support for IE6

When this spring is approaching, the Google Reader team made several updates to the reader. The first is the comment permission that has long left everyone very confused, previously, people often wondered "who can leave a message in my shared items" or "Why can't I leave a message in my shared items ". After the upgrade, the problem becomes very simple: if you can see a sharing entry, you can leave a message under this entry. If you set a shared item to public, you will see the dialog box above to confirm the setting next time you log on to reader.

The next step is to announce the demise of some old technologies. Starting from June 1, reader will no longer support older browsers represented by IE6 like Google Docs: safari 3.0 and chrome 3.0.

In addition, the offline functions implemented through gears three years ago will also disappear. Google said that this was done because offline access has put a huge burden on its services, and because HTML5 is becoming increasingly popular, gears has reached the end of its life. In addition, many RSS reading clients distributed on various platforms now support synchronization with Google Reader, and can also implement offline reading functions to some extent, such:

• Netnewswire (Mac OS X)
• Feeddemon (Windows)
• Liferea (Linux)