I think I speak for web developers everywhere when I say: DIE, IE6, DIE! DIE DIE DIE!!!!!!
YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye
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#12This is great. It's going to take big and popular sites like Youtube and Facebook to finally kill of IE6.
Except most IE6 installs are in corporate environments, which most likely already block youtube and facebook, so it won't really change anything.
Now if we could get Sun, IBM, and Google to all swear off IE6, maybe some IT departments would grudgingly update to IE7.
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#13I have a dream... of a world where everyone upgrades their browser in a timely way... where security fixes get applied and botnets don't spread... where the millions of developer hours formerly spent on browser hacks are instead used to add features... where advanced CSS selectors can be safely used... I have a dream of a world where one day, rounded corners can be made with a simple declaration and work in all browsers... where proprietary plugins are not needed for video, and tiny vector graphics scale beautifully on the page... where browsers will be judged by the usefulness of their features, not by the OSes they were bundled with..
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Maybe IT Departments would notice if google.com did the same thing aswell. Would that be monopolistic however?
They would lose search market to bing in that case.
Not necessarily, I finally dumped my hotmail account when it told me it doesn't support Chrome.
I believe brand familiarity would carry a lot of people into using a different browser. Google did huge things by implementing the Firefox download links. If you go to google.com and you get prompted "Runs best with Chrome" and you get a slightly delayed service, people will switch. If they slowed the service down until its still faster than MSN, Ask and Yahoo, but slower than google's supposed to be, you'd be able to force many people over to the browser of your choosing for speed.
Also Bing doesn't work particularly well. It also complains at me because I'm using Chrome.
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#15This is the kind of big player that will cause people to upgrade. It's the old saying that if people want dancing bunnies, people will click on anything put in front of them to get those dancing bunnies. Other apps will still have to support IE6 though, b/c BigCo's IT Department will be happy to stick with the browser that prevents employees from watching YouTube.
Maybe IT Departments would notice if google.com did the same thing aswell. Would that be monopolistic however?
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#16I love how this news is at least a week or so old. Nice job, Techcrunch.
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#17No Safari link? Given that Chrome is WebKit, you'd think they'd throw a little love back.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
They would lose search market to bing in that case.
Not necessarily, I finally dumped my hotmail account when it told me it doesn't support Chrome. I believe brand familiarity would carry a lot of people into using a different browser. Google did huge things by implementing the Firefox download links. If you go to google.com and you get prompted "Runs best with Chrome" and you get a slightly delayed service, people will switch. If they slowed the service down until it…
Not to suggest that people are evangelical about using IE6 but wouldn't your example make the case that users would rather switch services than change browsers? Anything to reduce IE6 usage is good news to web developers though.
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#19This is great. It's going to take big and popular sites like Youtube and Facebook to finally kill of IE6.
Except most IE6 installs are in corporate environments, which most likely already block youtube and facebook, so it won't really change anything. Now if we could get Sun, IBM, and Google to all swear off IE6, maybe some IT departments would grudgingly update to IE7.
I believe it's a myth that "most" IE6 are corporate environments. The diagrams about IE6 work day-weekend fluctuation wasn't that big.
I expect at least half of the active IE6 users to be users of the category "installed Win XP and doesn't care about updates or browsers". At least I know some people like this.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except most IE6 installs are in corporate environments, which most likely already block youtube and facebook, so it won't really change anything. Now if we could get Sun, IBM, and Google to all swear off IE6, maybe some IT departments would grudgingly update to IE7.
I believe it's a myth that "most" IE6 are corporate environments. The diagrams about IE6 work day-weekend fluctuation wasn't that big. I expect at least half of the active IE6 users to be users of the category "installed Win XP and doesn't care about updates or browsers". At least I know some people like this.
Corporate laptops make no distinction of work days. Digg's recent survey shows that a most of their users who are on IE 6 are so because of work.
There are also a lot of bots that label themselves as IE 6 which inflates the effect.