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

2009-07-15 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 15/07/2009, Ian Forrester 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 parts of the UK governm

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 asp

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

2009-07-15 Thread Ian Forrester
3293 -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 wrote: &g

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

2009-07-15 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 15/07/2009, Christopher Woods 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 do. > IE6 should

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 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 be working som

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

2009-07-15 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 15/07/2009, Scot McSweeney-Roberts wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 13:22, Peter Bowyer 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

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 lon