Re: [backstage] You Tube to drop support for IE6

2009-07-15 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 15/07/2009, Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk wrote: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/youtube-will-be-next-to-kiss-ie6-support-goodbye/ Interesting seeing how we still support IE6 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/futuremedia/technical/browser_support.shtml#support_table Large

RE: [backstage] You Tube to drop support for IE6

2009-07-15 Thread Christopher Woods
Large parts of the UK government still use IE6 unfortunately. Especially unfortunate if you happen to be a member of that community :-( For shame, maybe they'll have to do some real work for once ;) IE6 should die a slow and painful death. Lack of comprehensive support for widely used

RE: [backstage] You Tube to drop support for IE6

2009-07-15 Thread Ian Forrester
-Original Message- From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Peter Bowyer Sent: 15 July 2009 13:23 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] You Tube to drop support for IE6 On 15/07/2009, Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk wrote

Re: [backstage] You Tube to drop support for IE6

2009-07-15 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 15/07/2009, Christopher Woods chris...@infinitus.co.uk wrote: Large parts of the UK government still use IE6 unfortunately. Especially unfortunate if you happen to be a member of that community :-( For shame, maybe they'll have to do some real work for once ;) Nah, that would never

Re: [backstage] You Tube to drop support for IE6

2009-07-15 Thread Scot McSweeney-Roberts
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 13:22, Peter Bowyer pe...@bowyer.org wrote: of the UK government still use IE6 unfortunately. Especially unfortunate if you happen to be a member of that community If you're in an organization (government or not) that's still mandating IE6 aren't you probably going to

Re: [backstage] You Tube to drop support for IE6

2009-07-15 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 15/07/2009, Scot McSweeney-Roberts bbc_backst...@mcsweeney-roberts.co.uk wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 13:22, Peter Bowyer pe...@bowyer.org wrote: of the UK government still use IE6 unfortunately.Especially unfortunate if you happen to be a member of that community If you're in an

RE: [backstage] You Tube to drop support for IE6

2009-07-15 Thread Christopher Woods
IE6 should die a slow and painful death. Yep. The main reason www.nhs.uk still supports it is because of all the internal users who have it - many of them senior stakeholders for whom the standard argument about obsolescence wouldn't wash. It's just disgraceful really. Maybe the

RE: [backstage] You Tube to drop support for IE6

2009-07-15 Thread Andrew Bowden
IE6 should die a slow and painful death. Lack of comprehensive support for widely used aspects of various web languages, necessitating kludgey workarounds to make things render at least moderately close to how the designers want them to look. It's just plain rubbish. IE6 has lived long