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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 pchristensen »

This 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.

Re: YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye

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Post by Ardit20 »

pchristensen wrote: post #2

This 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?

Re: YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye

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Post by pilif »

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 still stuck with the crap that is IE6 (customers of a customer of ours was still using IE 5.5 (on NT4 in the year 2008 - sigh) it took some real convincing to make them accept the fact that the user experience could be degraded).

Re: YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye

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Post by ErrantX »

Ardit20 wrote: post #5
pchristensen wrote: post #2

This 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?

Probably. Which is where it gets murky because that might not be a bad thing.

(though they dont have a legit reason for blocking it - there is nothing IE6 doesnt "support" the G search needs)

Re: YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye

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Post by theklub »

Ardit20 wrote: post #5
pchristensen wrote: post #2

This 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?

They would lose search market to bing in that case.

Re: YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye

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Post by mcav »

Ardit20 wrote: post #5
pchristensen wrote: post #2

This 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?

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.
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