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YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye

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Re: YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye

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Post by danw »

pilif wrote: post #6

This is actually a change welcome by most IE6 users. Well. Not by their users, but by their administrators. We now know that most people still on IE6 are on IE6 because they are forced by corporate policy, corporate policy that most likely forbids You Tube use if there are no filters in place that make consumption impossible in the first place. If you want to provide a web service to the corporate internet, you are s…

I've noticed a few corporates who still need IE6 for some internal web apps also installing firefox recently due to not being able to have two versions of IE installed.

Re: YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye

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Post by KB »

statictype wrote: post #4

This is great. It's going to take big and popular sites like Youtube and Facebook to finally kill of IE6.

The largest IE6 population work wise is the US Government and they have little to no intention of upgrading to anything else anytime soon.

I'm currently stuck in the hell of developing web applications for government contracts that are targeted to IE6. For example... No multi css class support in IE6, which kills lots of JS libs. Horrible stuff.

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Post by chaqke »

mcav wrote: post #10
Ardit20 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe IT Departments would notice if google.com did the same thing aswell. Would that be monopolistic however?

It'd probably be monopolistic if they blocked IE8, and maybe IE7. But I think IE6 is legitimately old enough, with enough known problems, that it would be justifiable if it ever came up in court.

I wonder if facebook was paid by adobe when facebook videos began requiring Flash 10. That's the only reason I upgraded flash.

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Post by bmelton »

KB wrote: post #22
statictype wrote: post #4

This is great. It's going to take big and popular sites like Youtube and Facebook to finally kill of IE6.

The largest IE6 population work wise is the US Government and they have little to no intention of upgrading to anything else anytime soon. I'm currently stuck in the hell of developing web applications for government contracts that are targeted to IE6. For example... No multi css class support in IE6, which kills lots of JS libs. Horrible stuff.

You MIGHT be right, but I do web application development for government, and I was recently surprised when my new laptop was delivered with IE8 on the standard image.

For this particular agency, EDS is their GSS provider, so if EDS is incorporating IE8 into their ESA image, I wouldn't expect that it's too far off at other agencies they provide general support services for.

Of course, now I've got to make all the apps I've written work in IE6 AND IE8, alongside Firefox, which they're also piloting. I'm pleased at their progress, while staying wary of all the work it's going to bring my way.

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Post by DrJokepu »

calambrac wrote: post #17

No Safari link? Given that Chrome is WebKit, you'd think they'd throw a little love back.

I suppose, given that Safari, while being an excellent browser, on Windows it is not such a great experience and just feels weird, it is reasonable to not list it as an upgrade option for IE6 users. By the nature of the situation, this only happens on Windows.

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Post by calambrac »

pbz wrote: post #23
calambrac wrote: post #17

No Safari link? Given that Chrome is WebKit, you'd think they'd throw a little love back.

Safari is pointless on Windows.

It's an alternate browser that supports modern web standards. How is it any more 'pointless' than Firefox or Chrome?

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Post by JshWright »

jonknee wrote: post #20
beza1e1 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. http://blog.digg.com/?p=878 There are also a lot of bots that label themselves as IE 6 which inflates the effect.

Digg's recent survey shows that a most of their users who are on IE 6 _[and are interested in completing a survey about what browser they use]_ are so because of work.

If someone is already in the aforementioned "installed Win XP and doesn't care about updates or browsers" category, I think it's pretty safe to assume they might be in the "doesn't want to be bother with a survey about their browser" category.

Re: YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye

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Post by andreyf »

electromagnetic wrote: post #14
theklub wrote: post #9

Earlier 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…

I finally dumped my hotmail account when it told me it doesn't support Chrome.

So you chose to switch e-mail providers rather than browsers. The parent is saying the same holds true for search engines, which have a lot smaller barriers to switching services.

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