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0 pointsarchgoon6y ago0 comments

> nobody used IE6 except grandmas and corporations.

And a fifth of YouTube users at the time.

"IE6 users represented around 18% of our user base at that point. We understood that we could not just drop support for it"

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behringer6y ago

A fifth of youtube users were people at work. The same people who aren't allowed to change their browser or tell their boss to upgrade to IE8 so they can watch more youtube.

anyfoo6y ago

But maybe their boss wanted to keep watching YouTube at work, too.

shawabawa36y ago

Youtube adding the banner triggered google docs to add the banner.

People could tell their boss they needed to upgrade browser to use google docs for work

behringer6y ago

Oh right I forgot that part of the story as soon as I closed out and came back here. Duh. I could see that being the culprit!

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0 pointsarchgoon6y ago0 comments

> nobody used IE6 except grandmas and corporations.

And a fifth of YouTube users at the time.

"IE6 users represented around 18% of our user base at that point. We understood that we could not just drop support for it"

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behringer6y ago

A fifth of youtube users were people at work. The same people who aren't allowed to change their browser or tell their boss to upgrade to IE8 so they can watch more youtube.

anyfoo6y ago

But maybe their boss wanted to keep watching YouTube at work, too.

shawabawa36y ago

Youtube adding the banner triggered google docs to add the banner.

People could tell their boss they needed to upgrade browser to use google docs for work

behringer6y ago

Oh right I forgot that part of the story as soon as I closed out and came back here. Duh. I could see that being the culprit!

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse