{"id":684244,"date":"2010-03-05T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5487000"},"modified":"2010-03-05T22:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T03:20:00","slug":"microsoft-dev-team-sends-flowers-to-internet-explorer-6s-funeral-image-cache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/684244","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Dev Team Sends Flowers to Internet Explorer 6&#8217;s Funeral [Image Cache]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/03\/4408400442_5ab875c222_b.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/03\/500x_4408400442_5ab875c222_b.jpg?w=500\" class=\"left image500\"   title=\"Microsoft Dev Team Sends Flowers to Internet Explorer 6's Funeral\"\/><\/a>The funeral for Internet Explorer 6, one of the older members of the Microsoft family, was a pleasant affair with only a few protestors. Unfortunately representatives of the family were unable to attend and sent flowers and a note instead:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Thanks for the good times, IE6. See you all @ MIX, where we&#8217;ll show a little piece of IE heaven.<br \/>\n-The Internet Explorer Team @ Microsoft<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>IE6&#8217;s funeral arrangements&mdash;right down to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/atendesigngroup\/sets\/72157623558035182\/\">the photographer<\/a>&mdash; were made by design company Aten Design Group. They actually made it into a rather decent looking event:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\ngawkerGallery(5486998,8,'');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, IE6. Even if we were enemies half the time. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/atendesigngroup\/sets\/72157623558035182\/\">Flickr<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/03\/05\/ie6-funeral\/\">TechCrunch<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=48e111fa99611c5c0deeb8d029fe0315&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=48e111fa99611c5c0deeb8d029fe0315&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?resize=0%2C0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=jFiGwT-EcZw:SqEOJ9B_swU:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=jFiGwT-EcZw:SqEOJ9B_swU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=jFiGwT-EcZw:SqEOJ9B_swU:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=jFiGwT-EcZw:SqEOJ9B_swU:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=jFiGwT-EcZw:SqEOJ9B_swU:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=jFiGwT-EcZw:SqEOJ9B_swU:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/jFiGwT-EcZw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The funeral for Internet Explorer 6, one of the older members of the Microsoft family, was a pleasant affair with only a few protestors. Unfortunately representatives of the family were unable to attend and sent flowers and a note instead: Thanks for the good times, IE6. See you all @ MIX, where we&#8217;ll show a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":953,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2S0c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/953"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}