Funeral Being Held Today For IE6 194
An anonymous reader writes "More than 100 people, many of them dressed in black, are expected to gather around a coffin Thursday to say goodbye to an old friend. The deceased? Internet Explorer 6. The aging Web browser, survived by its descendants Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8, is being eulogized at a tongue-in-cheek 'funeral' hosted by Aten Design Group, a design firm in Denver, Colorado."
Oh great, now IE6 computers are zombies (Score:5, Funny)
... and nothing changed ...
My company supports zombies! (Score:3, Funny)
Posting this from a computer running a browser that now wants my braaaaaaaaaaaaaaains
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ALSO: Novell Netware support ends Sunday March 8th (Score:3, Interesting)
2 March 2010 - 5:11pm
novell.com [novell.com]
This will come as no surprise, since they've been talking about it for awhile. On March 7, 2010, NetWare will end its phase of general support. Extended support will be available between March 8, 2010 and March 7, 2012. For three years after that, until March 7, 2015, customers may utilize Novell's self-support resources...
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No need for support after... (Score:2, Funny)
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What do you mean by "now"? IE6 has enough security holes that there's already a quite sizable chance that a computer using it has been a zombie for a long, long time.
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... and nothing changed ...
Now we just need to bury 7 and 8!
Re:Oh great, now IE6 computers are zombies (Score:5, Funny)
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I don't know if this is a joke or not, but in WindowsXP, if you upgrade to ie8, navigate to c:\windows\ie8\iexplore.exe
This will load the IE6 UI, but it will be the IE8 rendering engine. It's located in c:\windows\ie7 if the computer has IE7 installed.
Just remember... (Score:5, Insightful)
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That sounds like an awful lot of effort... Kill it with fire!
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Nuke it from orbit just to be sure.
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Decapitate, stake through the heart, and bury underneath a crossroads, just to make sure it won't come back.
Rule #1: Cardio
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Decapitate, stake through the heart, and bury underneath a crossroads, just to make sure it won't come back.
Would the modern equivalent be "uninstall, virus scan, reformat"?
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and she is really a he but she'll never admit to that....
Stay dead! (Score:4, Funny)
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I wanted to say something similar, that I hope for open coffin so I can check for myself that it is really, really IE6 and that it's really, really dead.
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Make a Scene (Score:5, Funny)
I'm inclined to show up, very drunk, and make a scene. Certainly calling the deceased "my abuser". Probably inexplicably accusing the mourners of being "hypocrites" and/or "phonies". Possibly culminating in me falling into the grave and freaking out.
-Peter
Re:Make a Scene (Score:5, Funny)
Somebody should go there and wave "God hates IE6" signs.
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Somebody should go there and wave "God hates IE6" signs.
If only I had mod points today...
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Are they playing “Highway to Hell”?
Because, frankly, I WILL dance on it’s grave... While pissing on it too.
And say thanks for five years of nightmares at my last job.
It's been dead for years.. (Score:2)
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What about the 30% of people still using it? (Score:2, Interesting)
This ceremony is all well and good, but of course it doesn't change the reality that approximately 30% of all web users still use IE6, either out of ignorance or because the company they work for doesn't allow any other browser...
In some countries, especially Korea and Japan, usage still hovers around 75%. IE6 has better support for the languages used there than its successors, and significantly better support tha even Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari offer.
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Looking at the usage stats for my employer's two largest websites (which are "general use" websites and not in any way targeted at techies) I see IE6 going down from 5.5 - 6% at the start of the year to just under 5% in the last couple of weeks and from what I've heard from others they have similar numbers, at this point IE6 is completely marginalized on the web, the last places you'll find widespread IE6 usage is on certain corporate networks (and even those are slowly migrating away from it) and with thos
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First off, wow that is one seriously broken site, or maybe my adblocker recognizes their domain as an advertising domain and blocks a lot of stuff...
Second, while that table shows IE6 at roughly 19% you have to consider other data sources, preferably ones that aren't a web marketing company.
Third, the company I work for does business almost exclusively in northern europe and from what I and others I know have seen IE6 has nowhere near 20-30% of the browser market, it tends to be somewhere around 5-10% and d
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Sales Guy: "Oh, we told everyone visiting with IE to piss off."
Boss: "Right, good job!"
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I want to make sure I never hire you to do any work for me. You are obviously too short-sighted to deal with reality.
After you give us yours so we can make sure we never work for you. You're obviously going to demand that we spend twice the time developing the site on two rapidly diverging technology levels, essentially requiring us to make two copies of the site while only paying for one.
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Why would the traffic drop? IE6 is still quite capable of rendering any webpage in some capacity. This is like saying your Lynx traffic will drop off by adding an image to the website. Just because some elements of the site look funny in IE6 to you, doesn't mean that the end user cares; especially someone still using IE6.
funeral? (Score:3, Funny)
couldn't we instead pillory and behead it, tie it to a stake and alight it on a burning pyre, and then stomp on its corpse?
Sorry to Hear (Score:2)
I am so sorry for you loss and offer my deep felt sympathy
While can say I hardly knew the deceased i felt a deep sense of loss upon hearing of their demise
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"Gordon is on the way. Keep it safe from her. Help is coming."
err...?
Wishful thinking (Score:5, Insightful)
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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED (Score:2)
Major web development projects with IE6 have ended. In the Battle of the Internet, Mozilla Firefox and our Webkit competitors have prevailed. And now our team is engaged in programming and redesigning that site.
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There are some of us... (Score:2)
who still use IE6 for the sheer enjoyment of it. And while we may be stuck with IE6 because IE7 and IE8 aren't supported on an XP SP1 computer, we still love it. (Yes, some of us are stuck, for upgrading to SP2 causes problems, breaks software, and no, I am not kidding.) And this is a personal computer, not a corporate one.
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Including many fine, upstanding citizens from China, Russia and other wellsprings of volunteer programming talent.
Structurally there's no difference. (Score:3, Funny)
Official Site (Score:5, Informative)
The official site is here http://ie6funeral.com/ [ie6funeral.com]
Don't know why it wasn't included in the summary.
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As if you have to ask. It can be summed up in one word:
Samzenpus.
Oh Samzenpus, why do you keep thinking you can fanangle your submissions into a 'real' category. Keep it in idle where you belong. Of course, asking that is like asking a retarded child not to crap it's pants.
What a waste of time (Score:5, Insightful)
IRONY DETECTOR OVERLOAD (Score:2)
it appears you are complaining about someone wasting their time on the internet
in a comment on slashdot
lol!
while i repair my irony detector, please think about the meaning of concepts like "hypocrisy", "equivalency", and "lack of perspective"
k thx
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"I'm at home, drinking a cup of coffee, reading a news article in the morning. Not dressed up, at a fake funeral for a piece of computer software {AKA HUMOR} that isn't dead anyway. Take your sarcastic comments and dull sense of humor {ALERT, ALERT: IRONY DETECTOR AT CRITICAL THRESHOLD! DERP DERP DERP!} and shove them up your pretentious {IRONY DETECTOR HAS EXPERIENCED CORE MELTDOWN} ass."
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What's wrong with these people?
They hadn't been to a party in a little while. You will discover that in real life, many adults enjoy social gatherings. A justification that gives them an excuse to get together with friends and strangers of common interests is as good as any other.
In a week or so, you'll see a lot of people of all nationalities wearing green and drinking colored beer. This is a waste of time by your standards, particularly for the celebrants who are not of Irish descent. The happy partygoers will probably not be intereste
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Thanks for the long condescending response.
Any time!
If you enjoy standing in a cemetery, pretending you're at a funeral than I guess you're in luck.
The venue [denverpost.com] is a bar.
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Can you say "publicity stunt"?
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Until you've had to design a good-looking, full-featured, production-ready website for IE6, you can never truly understand.
As someone who never uses any IE.. (Score:2)
I never actually "use" it (use in quotes because who knows? the system is probably utilizing components of it for something stupid, like image display or file searching or playing the shutdown wav file), and I keep everything patched, but I suppose I'm possibly part of the problem... I am wary of what updating to 7 or 8 would do as far as installing more stuff on my otherwise working systems..
Is there any consensus as far as whether to upgrade or patch
Read this on CNN (Score:4, Interesting)
Where is it buried? (Score:3, Funny)
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Hope you get there before I do.
I'm taking in a lot of liquids.
Friendsters, Microsofties, Redditors, lend me .... (Score:3, Interesting)
your ears;
I come to bury IE6, not to praise it.
The evil that Microsoft does lives after it;
The good is oft interred with their code;
So let it be with IE6, The noble Stallman
Hath told you IE6 was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault;
And grievously hath IE6 answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Ballmer and the rest, -
For IE6 is an honorable browser;
So are they all, all honorable browsers, -
Come I to speak in IE6's funeral.
It was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Stallman says he was ambitious;
And Stallman is an honorable man.
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Dammit. You beat me to it. I was busy doing Real Work(tm), or I'd have posted a very similar item.
Correction: "Hail, Hail! The Witch is Dead" (Score:2)
There, I corrected you.
"Hail, Hail! The Witch is Dead"
"And there was great rejoicing."
As Bender would say (Score:2)
REST IN HELL CRAPVILLE!
So long (Score:2)
Just tell us where it's buried (Score:2)
So we all know where to pee.
My IE6 Memories (Score:2)
I met him once when I was younger and he shewed me a mangled frame containing the incomprehensible word "YOGSOTHOTHE" and promised me
Just as with Gravenreuth's funeral (Score:2)
I am tempted to go just to see how many would come, and how many are just there, like me, to see how many came.
A modest proposal (Score:2)
Not that I would advocate any such thing, but it should would be nice if someone would use one of the many security holes in IE6 to quietly and automatically upgrade all IE6 installations to IE8.
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Not that I would advocate any such thing, but it should would be nice if someone would use one of the many security holes in IE6 to quietly and automatically upgrade all IE6 installations to IE8.
Yes, the version of IE8 with that little orange fox logo.
That should would be nice.
Not dead for some... (Score:2)
For some companies, people are stuck on IE 6 for a variety of reasons:
Re:Not dead for some... (Score:4, Insightful)
Why would it have been important? If you were running a mixed W2K-XP shop in the 2006-2009 era, 2006 being the first year of availability for IE7, you kept IE6 unless you wanted to spend big bucks to support two browser versions internally. W2K was still in wide corporate use in 2006-2007--IE7 and Office 2007 were the first major apps that wouldn't run on W2K...
Personally, I think that not offering IE7 on W2K was a huge mistake... It would be the equivalent of Microsoft not offering IE8 on XP.
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I ran IE7 on Win2K. It was IE8 that wasn't offered.
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Mod parent down as utterly wrong.
I had a frickin' senior moment.
"old friend"??? (Score:2)
More than 100 people, many of them dressed in black, are expected to gather around a coffin Thursday to say goodbye to an old demented uncle that constantly shat himself, never understood anything we told him and we all hoped would just friggin DIE already!
There. Fixed.
If the new national IT infrastructure includes Death Panels for software, I'm all for it.
IE6 isn't dead yet (Score:2)
It just smells that way.
why? (Score:2)
Why would anybody mourn the death of that piece of crap?
Someday, and that day may never come... (Score:2)
This is what happens when you say you are going to "fucking bury Google."
Did someone tell IE6 it was dead? (Score:2)
I'm reading this article from a workstation running IE6, because that's the SOE for where I work. Non SOe software which is not authorised (and alternate browsers are not authorised) are heavily and actively policed.
I'm sure I'm not the only one in that situation.
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Non SOe software which is not authorised (and alternate browsers are not authorised) are heavily and actively policed.
I wouldn't feel accepted as a professional in such an environment.
Re:It's far from dead in the corporate world (Score:5, Funny)
Google: Bring out yer dead.
[IE8 puts IE6 on the cart]
IE8: Here's one.
Google: That'll be ninepence.
IE6: I'm not dead.
Google: What?
IE8: Nothing. There's your ninepence.
IE6: I'm not dead.
Google: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.
IE8: Yes he is.
IE6: I'm not.
Google: He isn't.
IE8: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
IE6: I'm getting better.
IE8: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
Google: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.
IE6: I don't want to go on the cart.
IE8: Oh, don't be such a baby.
Google: I can't take him.
IE6: I feel fine.
IE8: Oh, do me a favor.
Google: I can't.
IE8: Well, can you hang around for a couple of minutes? He won't be long.
Google: I promised I'd be at the Torvalds'. They've lost nine today.
IE8: Well, when's your next round?
Google: Thursday.
IE6: I think I'll go watching some YouTube videos.
IE8: You're not fooling anyone, you know. [turns to Google]Isn't there anything you could do?
IE6: I feel happy. I feel happy.
[Google glances up and down the street furtively, then silences IE6 with his a whack of his club]
IE8: Ah, thank you very much.
Google: Not at all. See you on Thursday.
IE8: Right.
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It turned me into a <new:t />!
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IE8: Who's that?
Google: Must be a king.
IE8: Why's that?
Google: Cuz he hasn't got ads all over him.
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Truly, I have been outdone (tips hat). Well done, maestro.
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+6 giggling at my desk
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Just use < and it'll show up correctly. <3 HTML Entities
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that some people still have time to waste at work. On the other hand, they got some free publicity out of it.
and what the hell are you doing right now Mr ClosedSource? Shouldn't you be working on patching that buffer overflow exploit in your recursive malloc function that some nice researcher reported free of charge 8 months ago?
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"as recommended by the manual" my "correctly expressed" response is I'm unemployed "you insensitive clod!".
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WOW! I think I just got trolled by a Jedi Master... I mean it really made me angry for a moment. Now if this isn't a troll then it really explains a lot... Just wow...
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That's what I was thinking, and who are they to decide IE6 died today? "Aten Design Group, a design firm in Denver, Colorado." Oh, right, well they're the authority on browsers then, the prestigious design group in Denver, and forget the 20% of internet users still using IE6 [cnn.com] "Despite its age, IE6 still held on to 19.8 percent of the market in February".
I hate IE6 as much as the next guy,
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It may not be dead, but it certainly doesn't matter anymore. Netscape still had around 40% market share when most developers considered it dead. Most people quickly adopted IE after that because they had to. The faster we stop supporting IE, the faster people will upgrade to something more modern.
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True, but they got more free publicity than they can shake a stick at. I'm sure the goal was exposure.
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that some people still have time to waste at work. On the other hand, they got some free publicity out of it.
Free publicity was the entire point. You can argue the merits of whether this should have been effective, but it would be hard to argue that they didn't accomplish anything.
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Game Over, Man! Game Over! (Score:3, Funny)
Just to make sure it's really dead.
I say we nuke the entire Microsoft campus from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.