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by cogman10 200 days ago
We, no joke, ultimately were able to drop our support for IE6->8 because of the youtube "we are dropping support for IE" banner. We spun it to our bosses as "If google is doing this, we should be able to."
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FridayoLeary 200 days ago
Some time ago there was a post here about it. The guy claimed he and a few other fed up devs made that banner on their own initiative. The whole thing was a huge bluff because at the time google had no such plan but it gained so much momentum that they went ahead with it eventually.
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ghurtado 200 days ago
That's awesome.

Having lived through the browser wars, this is my new favorite fact about the whole thing.

It really was a very different time, and you couldn't have convinced me back then that I would miss it one day.

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fragmede 200 days ago
Which, if you haven't read it before, the story of how they did that is worth the read.

https://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6

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