YouTube To Drop Support For IE6, Others In March

By Peter Ha | February 23, 2010 | +

IE6 users take heed for YouTube will drop support for your browser on March 13. That’s not to say you won’t be able to watch videos, but specific features – whatever they might be – will not work with your dinosaur browser. The same goes for those of you running Chrome 4.0, Firefox 3.0, Safari 3.0 and those of you running IE7.

Anyone caught using browsers deemed “old” by Google will be given the following message until you’ve upgraded your browser leading up to the March 13 deadline.

Support stops on March 13th. Stopped support essentially means that some future features on YouTube will be rolled out that won’t work in older browsers.

The question here is not why YouTube/Google will no longer support dated browsers, but why users are still using the aforementioned dinosaurs. Who still uses IE6?

(YouTube via Ars)

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captainnoble

We use IE6 at work (in a hospital) unfortunately. The best thing is that we just had a very expensive custom system built for us by GE for our new e-record initiative and guess what only works on IE6? Yeah. Don’t ask me who thought this made any sense.
http://theuselessinformationfile.wordpress.com wolvenspectre

They are doing the same thing for Docs too.

The problem is is that Opera is about to release its next major release of Opera and Google services still refuse to recognize Opera 10 as the latest version of Opera! If they don’t change their ways by the deadline us Opera users might be in trouble because once again Google is too lazy to write or change 1 or 2 lines of code, that ironicly enough would actually bring them closer to following web standards!

Shame Google.. Shame.
http://twitter.com/thepeterha Peter Ha

Yeah, I know about Docs, but the YouTube bit affects way more people.