Re:A conspiracy to kill IE6 (2019)
by davidkwast on Thursday October 16, 2025 @04:29PM
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But the use case is just to serve videos right? I know that new things will not come. But YouTube is almost the same in these 10 years I think.
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Even simple web apps can benefit from web platform improvements. JS, HTML, and CSS have all gotten significantly better in recent years.
But YouTube is also a very complex app. Yes it "just" exists to play videos, but the app is so much more than a video player. Browsing, searching, comments, chat, playlists, YT Live, subscriptions, profiles, ratings... there's a lot there.
And which of those things that people could build already in mid-90s require some nebulous unspecified "new broswer features"?
Perhaps they could start with just cutting down their bloated 100x-duplicated 4MB CSS file?
Re:A conspiracy to kill IE6 (2019)
by userbinator on Thursday October 16, 2025 @09:47PM
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<video> tag is probably the biggest change, but I still remember YT used SWF/FLV before then (and likely could still do today).
However, it's clear that the devs are mainly composed of trendchasing sheeple who have drunk the Goog-Aid and are addicted to newness and reinventing wheels to make them square... because they have to justify their existence.