Google’s Orkut Drops Support for IE6

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Post by peter123 » Tue, Aug 11, 2009, 5:36 PM UTC

Google’s Orkut Drops Support for IE6
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Re: Google’s Orkut Drops Support for IE6

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Post by johns » Tue, Aug 11, 2009, 7:29 PM UTC

Remember when Wired.com was the first to launch a site that was XHTML and it was news? Then other sites followed suit and they got attention but slowly it wasn't newsworthy anymore. That's what I hope happens with "X drops support for IE6" stories. And soon.

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Post by LegionSB » Tue, Aug 11, 2009, 8:40 PM UTC

Why is this story in English? The only people who care read Portuguese.

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Post by zargon » Tue, Aug 11, 2009, 8:40 PM UTC

Orkut still exists?

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Post by rglullis » Tue, Aug 11, 2009, 8:46 PM UTC

LegionSB wrote: post #3

Why is this story in English? The only people who care read Portuguese.

How about this: Orkut is not Brazil-exclusive. It has large groups of people from India, Iran, Pakistan, Japan and even the US. These groups of people most likely don't speak Portuguese, but they have English as a second language.

Re: Google’s Orkut Drops Support for IE6

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Post by treyp » Tue, Aug 11, 2009, 8:54 PM UTC

johns wrote: post #2

Remember when Wired.com was the first to launch a site that was XHTML and it was news? Then other sites followed suit and they got attention but slowly it wasn't newsworthy anymore. That's what I hope happens with "X drops support for IE6" stories. And soon.

Sorry, but I want to hear about the big ones. Orkut, not so much, but if a top 100 site drops support, that's news to me. It'd help me convince my clients to drop support, too.

Re: Google’s Orkut Drops Support for IE6

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Post by halo » Tue, Aug 11, 2009, 9:09 PM UTC

treyp wrote: post #6

johns wrote: post #2

Remember when Wired.com was the first to launch a site that was XHTML and it was news? Then other sites followed suit and they got attention but slowly it wasn't newsworthy anymore. That's what I hope happens with "X drops support for IE6" stories. And soon.

Sorry, but I want to hear about the big ones. Orkut, not so much, but if a top 100 site drops support, that's news to me. It'd help me convince my clients to drop support, too.

Orkut is the 125th most popular site in the world according to Alexa (yes, I know that's an unreliable metric). This is fantastic news... if you're in Brazil.

Re: Google’s Orkut Drops Support for IE6

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Post by johns » Tue, Aug 11, 2009, 9:33 PM UTC

treyp wrote: post #6

johns wrote: post #2

Remember when Wired.com was the first to launch a site that was XHTML and it was news? Then other sites followed suit and they got attention but slowly it wasn't newsworthy anymore. That's what I hope happens with "X drops support for IE6" stories. And soon.

Sorry, but I want to hear about the big ones. Orkut, not so much, but if a top 100 site drops support, that's news to me. It'd help me convince my clients to drop support, too.

Two reasons I want to stop seeing them. First it means phasing out IE6 is the norm which will only happen when its market share is insignificant. Second, I don't like seeing them because they don't really give you anything useful. If you need evidence that it can be done, you've got that (YouTube, etc) and I doubt that your site size and audience are the same as one of the large sites so your reasons for supporting or not supporting it will be very different than a large site, depending on your audience. So they're basically useless.

If you like them because it's reassuring to you that there's hope one day you won't have to suffer through supporting IE6 I can't help you. We'll always be wishing for some legacy barrier to be removed.