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points by xp84 3 days ago | 0 comments
> had

> massive corporate penetration

By this standard, every desktop should still ship with a copy of Internet Explorer 6. Most of what made it "special" compared to say, the contemporary Firefox 2.0, was its huge pile of special sauce used only in corporate settings. That stuff had massive corporate penetration as well, but we moved on because ActiveX in the browser wasn't worth the security cost of keeping it around.

If there are important legacy things sitting around corporate environments that literally require XSLT to function, they've had over a year of warning in which to sort it out -- port it to something else, or, pick some alternative browser, pin its version, and set it up with a proxy that can only access your weird XSLT sites. They'll be improving their own security posture with that move, as well!

Random corporations' failure to plan doesn't constitute a need for the rest of the world to continue to maintain obsolete technologies for free.

[–] randallsquared 3 days ago
> By this standard, every desktop should still ship with a copy of Internet Explorer 6

But the original statement being objected to was "never got off the ground", and while you can say many things about IE6, that isn't one.

[–] xp84 2 days ago
Ok you know what? Very fair objection. Just because I never encountered it personally doesn't mean anything. My first web development was not until about 2007, and simply was not ever in any company that used it.
[–] pmarreck 2 days ago
hah, you skipped right over a world of pain in the early 2000's! Every site had to essentially be built twice: once for everything but IE, and then once again for IE, it sucked ass