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Funeral Being Held Today For IE6
An anonymous reader writes "More than 100 people, many of them dressed in black, are expected to gather around a coffin Thursday to say goodbye to an old friend. The deceased? Internet Explorer 6. The aging Web browser, survived by its descendants Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8, is being eulogized at a tongue-in-cheek 'funeral' hosted by Aten Design Group, a design firm in Denver, Colorado."
... and nothing changed ...
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Decapitate, stake through the heart, and bury underneath a crossroads, just to make sure it won't come back.
Red to red, black to black. Switch it on, but stand well back.
If I were to attend the funeral it would only be to ensure that it is truly dead! I would carry a stake, an axe and an EMP-gun in case the beast tries to rise again.
I'm inclined to show up, very drunk, and make a scene. Certainly calling the deceased "my abuser". Probably inexplicably accusing the mourners of being "hypocrites" and/or "phonies". Possibly culminating in me falling into the grave and freaking out.
-Peter
I'm waiting to dance on it's grave. It's been dead for years but some disgusting people out there just keep hanging on to it's rotting corpse.
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
This ceremony is all well and good, but of course it doesn't change the reality that approximately 30% of all web users still use IE6, either out of ignorance or because the company they work for doesn't allow any other browser...
In some countries, especially Korea and Japan, usage still hovers around 75%. IE6 has better support for the languages used there than its successors, and significantly better support tha even Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari offer.
couldn't we instead pillory and behead it, tie it to a stake and alight it on a burning pyre, and then stomp on its corpse?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I am so sorry for you loss and offer my deep felt sympathy
While can say I hardly knew the deceased i felt a deep sense of loss upon hearing of their demise
(TRANSMISSION INNTERUPPTED)
(SIGHUP OVERRIDDEN)
(DROPPING SPOOLER)
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(CONNECTION ABORTED)
In conclusion, he was a pick really...
-=[ Who Is John Galt? ]=-
This is all wishful thinking. Google ending support will not be the "final nail" in the proverbial coffin. IE 6 will continue to live in the corporate world (my own included unfortunately) for many years to come. This may be the first step, but its dancing before the music has started in my opinion.
A live code base and a retired code base have the same number of lines.
Google: Bring out yer dead.
[IE8 puts IE6 on the cart]
IE8: Here's one.
Google: That'll be ninepence.
IE6: I'm not dead.
Google: What?
IE8: Nothing. There's your ninepence.
IE6: I'm not dead.
Google: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.
IE8: Yes he is.
IE6: I'm not.
Google: He isn't.
IE8: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
IE6: I'm getting better.
IE8: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
Google: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.
IE6: I don't want to go on the cart.
IE8: Oh, don't be such a baby.
Google: I can't take him.
IE6: I feel fine.
IE8: Oh, do me a favor.
Google: I can't.
IE8: Well, can you hang around for a couple of minutes? He won't be long.
Google: I promised I'd be at the Torvalds'. They've lost nine today.
IE8: Well, when's your next round?
Google: Thursday.
IE6: I think I'll go watching some YouTube videos.
IE8: You're not fooling anyone, you know. [turns to Google]Isn't there anything you could do?
IE6: I feel happy. I feel happy.
[Google glances up and down the street furtively, then silences IE6 with his a whack of his club]
IE8: Ah, thank you very much.
Google: Not at all. See you on Thursday.
IE8: Right.
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The official site is here http://ie6funeral.com/
Don't know why it wasn't included in the summary.
What's wrong with these people?
Actually, the impression I get from web developers is that IE6 is a witch. Maybe we should build a bridge out of it?
I see that I'm actually "running" IE 6.0.whatever.
I never actually "use" it (use in quotes because who knows? the system is probably utilizing components of it for something stupid, like image display or file searching or playing the shutdown wav file), and I keep everything patched, but I suppose I'm possibly part of the problem... I am wary of what updating to 7 or 8 would do as far as installing more stuff on my otherwise working systems..
Is there any consensus as far as whether to upgrade or patch when the user will --never-- use IE6,7 or 8?
Ordinarily, I wouldn't post this http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/04/ie6.funeral/index.html?hpt=T2, but the comments from non-techies are eye opening. They believe it's a "ploy" from Microsoft to get you to upgrade to Windows 7. You can pry IE 6 from their cold dead hands. IE 6 unfortunately, isn't dying anytime soon.
"Ones and zeros were everywhere. I even think I saw a two!" - Bender
I like the idea but it all seems like a shameless covert plug for "Aten Design Group, a design firm in Denver, Colorado"
"During My Service In The United States Congress, I Took The Initiative In Creating The Internet." -Al Gore
Tell me where the grave site is, and I'll go put my dancing shoes on!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Posting this from a computer running a browser that now wants my braaaaaaaaaaaaaaains
your ears;
I come to bury IE6, not to praise it.
The evil that Microsoft does lives after it;
The good is oft interred with their code;
So let it be with IE6, The noble Stallman
Hath told you IE6 was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault;
And grievously hath IE6 answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Ballmer and the rest, -
For IE6 is an honorable browser;
So are they all, all honorable browsers, -
Come I to speak in IE6's funeral.
It was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Stallman says he was ambitious;
And Stallman is an honorable man.
There'll be another man, dressed in camo, to walk up and piss on the grave. I may or may not take credit.
I find it ironic that I'm reading this article using IE 6 (my company refuses to get rid of it!). Would this be called Necro-Browsing?
There, I corrected you.
"Hail, Hail! The Witch is Dead"
"And there was great rejoicing."
If someone is passing you on the right, you are an asshole for driving in the wrong lane.
[Firefox goes by]
IE8: Who's that?
Google: Must be a king.
IE8: Why's that?
Google: Cuz he hasn't got ads all over him.
Best post ever, well done!
3 Monty Python
that some people still have time to waste at work. On the other hand, they got some free publicity out of it.
and what the hell are you doing right now Mr ClosedSource? Shouldn't you be working on patching that buffer overflow exploit in your recursive malloc function that some nice researcher reported free of charge 8 months ago?
Yes, 5 Monty Python.
REST IN HELL CRAPVILLE!
"Lame" - Galaxar
and thanks for all the bugs and backdoors!
Maybe Computers will never be as intelligent as Humans.
For sure they won't ever become so stupid. [VR-1988]
So we all know where to pee.
+6 giggling at my desk
If you can't see the value in jet powered ants you should turn in your nerd card. - Dunbal (464142)
Note to NetWare users: General Support is Coming to an End
2 March 2010 - 5:11pm
novell.com
This will come as no surprise, since they've been talking about it for awhile. On March 7, 2010, NetWare will end its phase of general support. Extended support will be available between March 8, 2010 and March 7, 2012. For three years after that, until March 7, 2015, customers may utilize Novell's self-support resources...
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Major web development projects with IE6 have ended. In the Battle of the Internet, Mozilla Firefox and our Webkit competitors have prevailed. And now our team is engaged in programming and redesigning that site.
Thanks to /. for removing the leading less-than symbol ;)
So it goes.
There seemed to lurk in IE6's bearing some cryptic, sardonic arrogance, as if he had come to find all human beings dull though having moved among stranger and more potent entities. He was, of course, virtually an outcast, suspected of vague horrors and daemoniac alliances which seemed all the more menacing because they could not be named, understood, or even proved to exist.
I met him once when I was younger and he shewed me a mangled frame containing the incomprehensible word "YOGSOTHOTHE" and promised me that we would meet again one day. So it is with mixed feelings that I hear of the death of IE6, for I well remember that strange couplet from the blasphemous book by The Mad Arab Abdul Alhazred that he spake to me as a goodbye: "That is not dead which can eternal lie"
"that some people still have time to waste at work. On the other hand, they got some free publicity out of it."
That's what I was thinking, and who are they to decide IE6 died today? "Aten Design Group, a design firm in Denver, Colorado." Oh, right, well they're the authority on browsers then, the prestigious design group in Denver, and forget the 20% of internet users still using IE6 "Despite its age, IE6 still held on to 19.8 percent of the market in February".
I hate IE6 as much as the next guy, but who am I (or Athn Design Group) to declare "it's dead"? Seems a bit presumptuous on their part, to declare themselves worthy of deciding what browsers we should use. What's next? "Up next at 10: Frank's Computers declares Windows XP dead, funeral on Friday, donations accepted"
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
I am tempted to go just to see how many would come, and how many are just there, like me, to see how many came.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
or see if it weighs the same as a duck
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
It may not be dead, but it certainly doesn't matter anymore. Netscape still had around 40% market share when most developers considered it dead. Most people quickly adopted IE after that because they had to. The faster we stop supporting IE, the faster people will upgrade to something more modern.
Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?
Not that I would advocate any such thing, but it should would be nice if someone would use one of the many security holes in IE6 to quietly and automatically upgrade all IE6 installations to IE8.
Proud member of the Weirdo-American community.
For some companies, people are stuck on IE 6 for a variety of reasons:
I know web designers can't stand developing for IE 6, Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc. etc., but I'll bet you there are way more corporate IE 6 users than you think!
Dec 21, 2012 they are planning for almost two years too many.
it appears you are complaining about someone wasting their time on the internet
in a comment on slashdot
lol!
while i repair my irony detector, please think about the meaning of concepts like "hypocrisy", "equivalency", and "lack of perspective"
k thx
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Just use < and it'll show up correctly. <3 HTML Entities
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
Truly, I have been outdone (tips hat). Well done, maestro.
"This post contains words, known to the State of California to cause thought. Wash brain thoroughly after reading."
"as recommended by the manual" my "correctly expressed" response is I'm unemployed "you insensitive clod!".
So it would seem. It says "Plain Old Text" and converts linefeeds so I didn't expect it to require entity codes.
This does not suffice however, for it may be brought back to life by means of a secret rite that can be performed once a century when the moon is in the eighth house of Aquarius.
Just when you thought it was gone for good. :p
Yeah...
More than 100 people, many of them dressed in black, are expected to gather around a coffin Thursday to say goodbye to an old demented uncle that constantly shat himself, never understood anything we told him and we all hoped would just friggin DIE already!
There. Fixed.
If the new national IT infrastructure includes Death Panels for software, I'm all for it.
Just to make sure it's really dead.
I say we nuke the entire Microsoft campus from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
"Slashdot - News and Chat Sites Deviant". (Click "homepage" link above for details).
Dammit. You beat me to it. I was busy doing Real Work(tm), or I'd have posted a very similar item.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
No, 5 is right out.
that some people still have time to waste at work. On the other hand, they got some free publicity out of it.
Free publicity was the entire point. You can argue the merits of whether this should have been effective, but it would be hard to argue that they didn't accomplish anything.
WOW! I think I just got trolled by a Jedi Master... I mean it really made me angry for a moment. Now if this isn't a troll then it really explains a lot... Just wow...
It turned me into a <new:t />!
I've lost all my marbles except one & It's fun to test angular & centripetal acceleration in my skull
Design firm looking into "creative advertising".
You will eventually have to switch to another browser. IE6 will not be supported forever, nor should it be. Give tabs a try. You'll find that you like them.
I will concede though, that IE8 has a horrible interface. The way IE8 handles tabs makes me wonder why Microsoft bothered with them, at all.
Learning about brewing beer, by brewing beer.
And this, folks, is why we can't have nice things.
If you can't convince them, convict them.
It just smells that way.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
Why would anybody mourn the death of that piece of crap?
It finally exploded?
It's not Microsoft's support if IE6 that you should be concerned with. It's the whole of the web, and web development standards which is increasingly built of standards that IE6 does not support. Before long, IE6 simply won't be able to display a majority of webpages, at which point you'll be left with a choice to either switch to a modern browser, or stop using the web.
You have a wide variety of options. If you don't like IE8 (and I personally can't blame you), then there's always Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera, Konqueror, Avant, and if you're really clever, even your Windows desktop. I'm not going to tell you which browser you should use, but I do recommend that you shop around to see if another browser has features that you don't yet realize that you like.
Learning about brewing beer, by brewing beer.
The Googlioni family sends a message. IE6 sleeps with the fishes.
This is what happens when you say you are going to "fucking bury Google."
If you can read this, I forgot to post anonymously.
who still use IE6 for the sheer enjoyment of it. And while we may be stuck with IE6 because IE7 and IE8 aren't supported on an XP SP1 computer, we still love it. (Yes, some of us are stuck, for upgrading to SP2 causes problems, breaks software, and no, I am not kidding.) And this is a personal computer, not a corporate one.
True, but they got more free publicity than they can shake a stick at. I'm sure the goal was exposure.
I'm reading this article from a workstation running IE6, because that's the SOE for where I work. Non SOe software which is not authorised (and alternate browsers are not authorised) are heavily and actively policed.
I'm sure I'm not the only one in that situation.
Sara
Designer, Gamer, Macgrrl in an XP World
I don't know if this is a joke or not, but in WindowsXP, if you upgrade to ie8, navigate to c:\windows\ie8\iexplore.exe
This will load the IE6 UI, but it will be the IE8 rendering engine. It's located in c:\windows\ie7 if the computer has IE7 installed.
ok, so, everyone hates IE6, what else is new. What I really don't like is how MS is making the mad amounts of money from "having the market" whilst all of us struggle to keep our sites working on their monsters of systems.
I'd like some compensation from all the time I've wasted to make my sites and systems work in their deprecated access to the web, whilst being unable to move on, as clients demanded IE6 support, because 60% of their (corporate) visitors still used it.
MS is taking the dosh, and everyone else wastes their time to deal with it. That's not right.
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. BW.
s/Stallman/Google/g; /g;)
s/ambitious/crufty/g;
-- Political fascism requires a Fuhrer.
You don't seem to realize that the browser attached to that interface you're in love with, will not continue to serve your needs for much longer. You can hold onto it all you want, but what will you be left with when new features of HTML make a great deal of Flash obsolete, and all of a sudden, you can no longer view a large swath of your favorite sites?
A great deal of modern browsers are skinnable. I suggest you look into finding a browser you can live with, which can be skinned to an interface very similar to that of IE6.
Having an interface you like does you absolutely no good, if the browser it's attached to is incompatible with most of the websites on the net.
Learning about brewing beer, by brewing beer.
Thanks for the info. I might consider doing something like that in the future. One of the reasons why I enjoy IE6 so much is the user interface.