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YouTube Phasing Out Support For IE6

Posted by kdawson on from the ding-dong dept.

Oracle Goddess sends word that YouTube is presenting IE6 users with a banner exhorting them to upgrade to a modern browser, and TechCrunch is reporting that YouTube will be phasing out support for IE6 soon. This Twitter search reflects the jubilation breaking out all over the Net at the imminent demise of this most despised and non-standards-compliant browser. The market share for IE6 is now well down in the single digits.

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  1. About time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good. That's like phasing out of support for cancer.

    1. Re:About time by CorporateSuit · · Score: 5, Funny

      Perhaps next, they can follow Slashdot's example and phase out support for web browsers.

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    2. Re:About time by MacTO · · Score: 2, Funny

      > Perhaps next, they can follow Slashdot's example and phase out support for web browsers.

      This may actually be an advantage:

      show_articles.sh YouTube-Phasing-Out-Support-For-IE6 | sed s/IE6/Windows/g | more

  2. I don't know... by Darkness404 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't know about anyone else, but I really felt that IE6 was a much better (although flawed) browser than IE7. Sure, IE7/8 has new features, but its UI is terrible and seems to be slower responding. IE6 was a decent browser, aside from the fact it was a pain to code for and insecure.

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    1. Re:I don't know... by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 5, Funny

      He never claimed that IEs 7 & 8 weren't horrible.

    2. Re:I don't know... by n30na · · Score: 2, Funny

      But the seats were soft and you had more leg room.

      You mean seat. IE6 could only hold one at a time.

    3. Re:I don't know... by raju1kabir · · Score: 1, Funny

      A better analogy would be: the customer buys a hamburger, then someone named basementman walks up to him and starts trying to make an analogy that is totally irrelevant and makes no sense, then the customer throws the hamburger at basementman and goes home.

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  3. Praise Jeebus! by chill · · Score: 5, Funny

    What is needed is a good exorcism. IE6 needs to be cast out from the net and its bloated carcass nailed to a tree as a lesson to others.

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    1. Re:Praise Jeebus! by Brian+Gordon · · Score: 5, Funny

      At work I have to use IE on Windows 2000. Don't phase me out please!

    2. Re:Praise Jeebus! by Amazing+Quantum+Man · · Score: 5, Funny

      Should that be "Don't phase me, bro!"?

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  4. Hello? IT Department? by Enuratique · · Score: 2, Funny

    I, uh, want to upgrade to IE8. Why? Uhhh, I hear it's safer to use. What do you mean the time sheet tool and headcount apps won't work in IE8?! I don't give a damn, how hard can it be to make them work? I need it NOOOOOOOOOW!

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  5. Re: cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    this has to be a total lie. linux does everything perfectly out of the box every single time. you're a shill and a troll. linux is the bestest~!!!!!onethousandonehundredeleven!!!! how much is balmers paying you? chairs thorw dev3loprss.dfsa.faddfg

    NO CARRIER

  6. That's a bit sensationalist by east+coast · · Score: 4, Funny

    This Twitter search reflects the jubilation breaking out all over the Net

    Yeah, there's a virtual kegger going on over at Twitter about this. Is that going to be our new gauge of how things are going on in the computing world? Has netcraft confirmed it?

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  7. WAIT A SECOND!!! by yurtinus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Twitter search? Really? I mean.... Really?!?

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  8. Re:Market share by JCSoRocks · · Score: 2, Funny

    Lot's of corporations still have IE 6 as their "corporate IT approved" browser.

    This. This. This. Our web apps are written exclusively for big companies and we're still stuck supporting IE6 because our customers absolutely require it. It's painful. *sigh* What I wouldn't do to go Office Space on something that represents IE6.

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  9. Okay I'll do it! by nilbog · · Score: 2, Funny

    I saw this message today an decided to upgrade my browser. That's the internet, right? I called AOL and told them to upgrade my internet please. They happily obliged. It seems like the same internet to me and I still get the message on youtube.

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  10. Re: cool by MaskedSlacker · · Score: 3, Funny

    Watching porn.

    Was it really that hard to figure out?

  11. In other news - cubicle productivity soars by Zantetsuken · · Score: 3, Funny

    In other news, office cubicle productivity has coincidentally soared to heights not seen since before the launch of Youtube... Next up...

  12. Re:Market share by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    *sigh* What I wouldn't do to go Office Space on something that represents IE6.

    A chair?

  13. Re:Market share by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure they count! How could they dispense a set amount of money otherwise.

  14. Re:Mod Informative, please. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    not an add-on, extension fluffed "application display system."

    It doesn't work right in firefox either.

  15. Re:Market share by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I think you misunderstood her when she said the idea of a 35 year old still living in his parent's basement was 'laughable'.