A conspiracy to kill IE6

[Kent Sharkey]

Chris Zachrias[^]:

Ten years ago, a small team of web developers conspired to kill IE6 from inside YouTube and got away with it.

Soon to be read as evidence in court

[Dan Neely]

A round for the house. The hero's we needed! :beer:

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

[FIorian Schneidereit]

Gosh, YouTube was really bad looking in 2009. On the other hand, now that its design is not so ugly anymore, it's overload with JavaScript-fanciness.

[Rick York]

Yes, it was a killing but it was euthanasia. Actually, I think they put it out of our misery.

"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

[Mark_Wallace]

Yes, this is good because it was one of google's first major misinformation campaigns against anyone who didn't want to use google products -- chrome, in this instance. Since then, they've used similar misinformation campaigns for numerous things, like internet privacy, their absolute right to publish other people's material without paying royalties, etc. It's nice to see that such a small company, that had such a small start as a provider of information on the Internet, managed to turn things around and become such a great giant at stealing personal information and producing misinformation.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!