As I’ve wrote earlier this week, Google is leading a silent battle against Internet Explorer 6, the 7 year-old browser that is still causing tons of problems to web developers. A first major step, was the announcement that YouTube is no longer supporting IE6, which was more of a statement then a strategic decision – since most of YouTube features will probably still work for time to come.

More likely the stake, must be the recently announced Google Wave, the most anticipated web application of the year which is packed with state-of-the-art HTML 5 technologies – some of them not fully supported even by the latest version of browsers (like drag-and-drop), and which Google is trying to sqeeze into the HTML 5 specifications. It is clear that  Google Wave is not likely to work with the age-old Internet Explorer 6, so Google is doing his best to determine users to upgrade to Chrome or some other latest generation browser.