A Conspiracy to Kill IE6
Oh my, this is amazing.<p>I'm not sure the engineers realized despite their secrecy, it would be noticed by the press <i>immediately</i> after deploy.<p>But the best part is how Google engineers immediately on seeing it figured "oh yeah, we should do that too" (although they apparently got the necessary approvals however that was done at Google, it was easier to do because they figured "well, youtube must have done due dillegence before doing it.")<p>Amazing!<p>I don't know how they didn't all get fired. Like, ALL of em, including everyone who set up the special "OldTuber" priv long before.<p>But... it worked! This is a hacker story for the history books, it sounds like the kind of thing programmers did 20+ years ago for nothing except the reward of <i>doing it right</i> (against their own career interests), that I feel like doesn't happen so much in a more professionalized industry.