How did you mourn Internet Explorer's passing?
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2022/06/16/internet_explorer_celebration/
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One joker chose to celebrate [1]the passing of the former web bigwig with a tombstone where one could go and pay homage to the malign influence exerted by the browser.
Someone built a real tombstone of Internet Explorer in Korea. "He was a good tool to download other browsers." [2]https://t.co/42vnkoQshd [3]pic.twitter.com/ud3SMiyLNp — Soonson Kwon (@ksoonson) [4]June 15, 2022
Others, such as actor and gin slinger Ryan Reynolds, tweeted the hashtag #BringBackInternetExplorer. No. Please no.
Lonesome Dove:The Outlaw Years was one of my first jobs back in 1995. It’s been a crazy 27 years and I can’t imagine doing it without you, Internet Explorer. The show didn’t deserve another season but you sure did… [5]#BringBackInternetExplorer [6]@microsoft [7]pic.twitter.com/7rE7LM9FA9 — Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) [8]June 15, 2022
Reynolds does, however, play the Deadpool character that is notable for his ability to not die. The same could be said for Internet Explorer, which will live on both in the long-term servicing version of Windows as well as bits of the core operating system that Microsoft dare not poke too hard.
The Deadpool sequel was Deadpool 2 . Internet Explorer's was Edge and, frankly, the less said about that the better. Microsoft has, after all, also had a go at killing that off as well. Edge is dead, long live Chromium Edge and all that.
[9]Internet Explorer 11 limps to the end of Windows 10 road
[10]Bing! Microsoft tests search box in the middle of Windows 11 desktop
[11]Windows Insider builds are back for Lenovo PCs in China
[12]Google issues third emergency fix for Chrome this year
The meme machine worked overtime for Internet Explorer's farewell, and there was a reminder of the browser's greatest hits (or most common message) on many a social media stream.
「IE、いよいよお別れの時だね。行こうか…」
＼Internet Explorer is NOT responding／ [13]pic.twitter.com/sk1TGoULjo — うめめ🔛ITエンジニャー🗯 (@beConjuror) [14]June 14, 2022
Microsoft's Edge team chimed in, although to our eyes that beige box looks for all the world like an Amiga 1000, discontinued long before Internet Explorer troubled the desktop. PCs of similar design emerged over the years, but it can't be... can it?
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Overall, the death of Internet Explorer was mourned as one might mark the end of an era without really remembering all the lows to accompany the highs. Engineers forced to work around the browser's many, many foibles were doubtless dancing on its grave even if in recent years the vast majority of users only ever fired it up for one thing:
Today marks the official end of Microsoft’s support for Internet Explorer. RIP to the #1 Chrome installer of all time — Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) [16]June 15, 2022
And even that one remaining duty was taken over by Edge in recent years. No flowers. ®
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[1] https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/14/bye_bye_ie/
[2] https://t.co/42vnkoQshd
[3] https://t.co/ud3SMiyLNp
[4] https://twitter.com/ksoonson/status/1536938327395680256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[5] https://twitter.com/hashtag/BringBackInternetExplorer?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[6] https://twitter.com/Microsoft?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[7] https://t.co/7rE7LM9FA9
[8] https://twitter.com/VancityReynolds/status/1537163000049704960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/14/bye_bye_ie/
[10] https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/19/windows_insider_desktop_search_box/
[11] https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/19/windows_insider_lenovo_china/
[12] https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/15/google-third-fix-chrome-vulnerability/
[13] https://t.co/sk1TGoULjo
[14] https://twitter.com/beConjuror/status/1536654723558035456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[15] https://regmedia.co.uk/2022/06/16/edge_ie_goodbye.jpg
[16] https://twitter.com/MKBHD/status/1537062165848506368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[17] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Re: It's not dead.
Definitely not dead where I work, because for reasons I've never been able to extract, we need Chrome, IE and edge to be able to use all of our corporate intranet. Many pages only work properly in one of those browsers and bizarrely only one of them can download files from links. And I thought web browsing was meant to be standardised?
Re: It's not dead.
"And I thought web browsing was meant to be standardised?"
It is ... as long as you're not trying to adhere to a proprietary version of that standard.
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. —Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Re: It's not dead.
Web browsing is. Downloading files isn't. You should use FTP for that.
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Re: It's not dead.
And I thought web browsing was meant to be standardised?
It should be, but many cockwombles thought they could single-handily re-create the wheel. I mean, have you SEEN the state of modern programming? It's a shambling, mountainous pile of shite fueled by egos at every level that could not pour piss out of their boots with the instructions written on the bottom of the heels.
"Engineers forced to work around the browser's many, many foibles"
As one of these people, I'm grateful that it paid off a large chunk of my mortgage.
Re: "Engineers forced to work around the browser's many, many foibles"
So I take it that you weren't active in the "interesting" time when it was necessary to support *both* IE *AND* real browsers.
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Re: "Engineers forced to work around the browser's many, many foibles"
I was quite active in that timeframe. I made sure that our pages rendered quite nicely in all browsers by making proprietary bits & bobs "illegal". Didn't seem to hurt our WWW uptake any ... and in fact, it helped in that we got far, far fewer support calls.
Re: "Engineers forced to work around the browser's many, many foibles"
Ah, Frontpage vs the rest of the world.
"Would you also like the Frontpage extension installed on your web server as well?"
Me: "No thanks, they piss right off in front of a train."
OK, now please tell the router/DVRs/specialized software manufacturers they need to ditch the ActiveX controls.
If they're anything like our end clients, they emailed yesterday saying it doesn't work in Edge and asking what could be done about it.
As they ignored our CR proposals about this time last year, very little.
Bwahahahaaha.
WHOCOULDKNOWED?! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL US?!
Toasting it's demise as we speak
Or just having one of these--->
Na, just having one and then another... I kissed IE good bye long ago... v6 or v7...
Where did they bury it?
I'm in a dancing mood.
Re: Where did they bury it?
"I'm in a dancing pissing mood."
FTFY
Last version of IE that I used was IE5. Its been dead to me for a very long time.
I never did use IE, except to perform Windows Updates when that required IE. For browsing purposes, I went from Netscape (from the beginning through 4.x), then to Mozilla (now Seamonkey) 1.1, then to Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox once it was released, which I have used for the next couple of decades. Chrome and IE need not apply... no room for browsers from the corporate giants attempting to own the web.
I don't remember ever really using IE for anything important, other than showing newbies how to get online with the tools available on their computer (after installing the " Plus! package for Win95). And then promptly offering to show them how easy it was to download and install NCSA Mosaic, IBM's WebExplorer and Netscape as better alternatives. (The IBM version didn't last long, but it was a handy "authority figure" lever to pry people away from Microsoft in 1995 & 1996. Yes, even that early on when all browsers were primitive, the Microsoft version stood out in its abysmalness.)
If you already had IE5 as part of the OS then there wasn't much reason to install Netscape (though I did), even if you no longer had to pay for it (which I didn't).
IE5.5 was an improvement.
Then I jumped to Opera, and paid cash money for it.
To me IE6 was a step backwards, unless you consider cookie tracking a good thing.
Yet that's where they left us for the next umpteen years. 7 was pitiful, but a mild statement of intent, 8 also, 9 fixed some horrible pain points. 10 and 11 were increments, not nearly enough.
As a developer I've been waiting for ES6 support for years. ES6 was renamed ES2015 in, er, 2015. IE11 still doesn't have it.
In its prime it was OK. Since about 2001 IE has been making web development unnecessarily difficult. This was a choice by Microsoft. As penance they should be forced to update Trident to support -- at the very least -- all those standards which Microsoft representatives had a hand in penning, but somehow never intended to deliver.
Chromium is great. Gecko too. Is that really it? We urgently need Trident and Presto to be open-sourced.
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Gates's conspiracy
The real reason Internet Explorer died per Twitter. Note this was actually The Daily Show and Bill Gates on the thread.
The Daily Show: "Wow, Bill Gates encourages everyone to get vaccinated, then a year later Internet Explorer dies. Coincidence???"
Bill Gates: "I guess we finally ran out of microchips"
Amiga 1000 showing an IE logo
That's just... wrong... like some alternative reality TV series where the US is occupied by Nazis or something.
Re: Amiga 1000 showing an IE logo
Fairly sure that is an Amiga as that appears to be a Commodore 1081 or 1084 monitor, which i spends many an hours looking at when I had one connected to my Amiga in my youth.
Check this photo as it looks like a very similar setup https://bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/media/download_photos/a1000_1_big.jpg
I guess it could be running IE on Windows 95 through an x86 bridge board or emulation so could have seen IE on it all be running very slowly.
IE has died
I demand the right to download the only copy of the source code, stick it in an old oil barrel, pile wood and other flammables on it and set fire to it
Only way to be sure..... right?
Re: IE has died
You missed off “…at a crossroads, at midnight.”
Make it open source
If you're no longer going to 'support' it, How about making it open source, and Let others 'support' it for you?
Re: Make it open source
Help Wanted:
10+ Absolute f***ing rocket scientist "C++" programmers to support a monumental POS of labyrinthine complexity that nobody wants.
Salary: None.
Re: Make it open source
Can we add blockchain?
@AC - Re: Make it open source
Even better, how about allowing me to uninstall it from Windows 7 ?
How to mourn?
Party like it’s 1995.
“How did you mourn Internet Explorer's passing?”
Well, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde: one must have a heart of stone to read of the death of IE without laughing.
Outlook 2019 still loves IE11
Outlook 2019 sometimes offers "if there are problems with how this message is displayed, click here to view it in a we browser" That produces an .mht file.
Set those to open in Edge and I see plain text only – even the links are plain and nonfunctional. Set IE11 as the default (in W10 21H2 fully updated) and IE11 springs to life and opens it very nicely, thank you.
Do what?
I'll wait until the stake is driven though its heart of a million seats at moribund companies.
It's not dead.
It's just pining for the fjords. Ignore the nails in it's tiny little feet keeping it firmly atop the perch. He claims he's not dead, feels perfectly fine, & wants to go for walkies. I think I heard the thump of a heavy blunt object against a skull...