Comment by cogman10

Comment by cogman10 2 days ago

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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."

FridayoLeary 2 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.

  • ghurtado 2 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.