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

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

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

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

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

    Watching porn.

    Was it really that hard to figure out?

  7. 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...

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

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