A Conspiracy to Kill IE6
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A Conspiracy to Kill IE6
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#2Oh my, this is amazing.
I'm not sure the engineers realized despite their secrecy, it would be noticed by the press immediately after deploy.
But the best part is how Google engineers immediately on seeing it figured "oh yeah, we should do that too" (although they apparently got the necessary approvals however that was done at Google, it was easier to do because they figured "well, youtube must have done due dillegence before doing it.")
Amazing!
I don't know how they didn't all get fired. Like, ALL of em, including everyone who set up the special "OldTuber" priv long before.
But... it worked! This is a hacker story for the history books, it sounds like the kind of thing programmers did 20+ years ago for nothing except the reward of doing it right (against their own career interests), that I feel like doesn't happen so much in a more professionalized industry.
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#3You can take your IE6 and shove it up your ass. There are many reasons on why it should have been out of the picture that go beyond conspiracy.
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#4You did God's work, son. As a bitter veteran of the browser wars, thank you.
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#5They risked their jobs for the greater good. Absolute heroes.
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#6This was a really great read. Thanks for sharing and thanks for putting the nail in the IE6 coffin.
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#7I loved the part when the Docs team added their own because they were "presumably under the mistaken assumption that we had done our diligence and had received all of the necessary approvals....Amazingly, we had somehow bypassed detection as the originators of the IE6 banner inside of Google."
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#8This is an awesome article. Thanks to this team they probably helped push the web ahead by a few years ahead vs if web developers still had to support the cripple that is IE6.
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#9I remember using those banners are reasons to not support IE6 in our client projects at the time. It took a bit longer for it to actually fade away for us, but it's great to hear the story behind those banners.
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#10Is this a charming story about helping users upgrade to modern web browsers or a dark parable about the influence of tech giants?
Compare with ex-Firefox VP Johnathan Nightingale's recent thread about Google "amateur hour" and "oopses" that only affected Firefox: