YouTube To Kill IE6 Support On March 13

Joel writes "Over six months ago, Google announced it would start phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 on Orkut and YouTube, and started pushing its users to modern browsers. The search giant has now given a specific kill date for old browser support on the video website: 'Support stops on March 13th. Stopped support essentially means that some future features on YouTube will be rolled out that won't work in older browsers.'"

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Re:It's about goddamned time

[ArsenneLupin]

You sir are a spineless coward who cares only about what the crowd is doing

I know I shouldn't be feeding the trolls... but apparently, you too care about what the crowd is thinking. Or why else did you chose not to log in?

Re:It's about goddamned time

[amicusNYCL]

Someone who thinks "niggardly" is a racist or racially-motivated term is wrong, that's just a fact

That's correct, it's a fact.

You sir are a spineless coward who cares only about what the crowd is doing, not about what's right or correct. People like you are responsible for most of the injustice in the world.

That's a nice projection, but you're missing the point. You (I assume I'm still talking to the same person who posted originally, but I can't tell because, ironically enough, you are an Anonymous Coward) meant to describe Microsoft as stingy or cheap. You could have used either of those words, but instead you chose a word that, at the very least, you should have known that some people would confuse with a racial slur. You should have known that, but you chose to use that word anyway. You could have gotten your point across better if you had used "cheap" or "stingy", but look what happened: instead of talking about Microsoft or IE, now we're focused on the word you chose to use. Instead of effectively communicating your message, you caused confusion. That was the point I was making, not defending anyone, nothing to do with injustice or all of the problems in the world being my fault, just pointing out that if you were trying to achieve effective communication, you failed miserably.

Re:It's about goddamned time

[amicusNYCL]

There's nothing ignorant about promoting effective communication. The quality of one's writing improves as you are able to remove words or syllables and not lose any meaning. This:

Microsoft is niggardly

is less effective than this:

Microsoft is stingy

which is less effective than this:

Microsoft is cheap

All three of those mean the exact same thing, but the last one will be the most effective at communicating the message to the most people without causing confusion.

I guess you can see that as "ignorant is cool", but it's a basic tenet of effective technical writing.

Posted logged in, because I'm not scared of being modded down and I'm not going to hide.