YouTube To Kill IE6 Support On March 13 282
Joel writes "Over six months ago, Google announced it would start phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 on Orkut and YouTube, and started pushing its users to modern browsers. The search giant has now given a specific kill date for old browser support on the video website: '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.'"
Next up, IE7 (Score:5, Interesting)
IE7 is almost as much of an albatross as IE6 was.
CSS support is such, that if you want pixel perfect layout, you are looking at a seperate style sheet; and if you just serve the standards compliant sheet, your page will look like ass.
Update all "ie6 must die" campaigns, to "ie7 must die".
IE 6 Not dead in the workplace, doesn't matter (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Good Riddance! (Score:3, Interesting)
The problem is merely one of semantics.
IE6 == web browser // Major problem // No problem
IE6 != web browser AND IE6 == Corporate network app viewer
Re:Important Clarification: (Score:3, Interesting)
It should be noted that Google is not breaking youtube for IE6 users(the poor bastards). Doing so would be pretty stupid ...
Correct on both counts. From the fine article:
Implicit in the approach is an attempt to shame the user. That, combined with the presentation of a list of options (supported browsers) will go a long way to dispel the erroneous notions of folks who associate the internet with the Big Blue "e", or otherwise think the world begins and ends with Microsoft products. Overstated? Perhaps, but if I was Microsoft, I'd prefer not having one of the world's best known companies reminding my customers that my products suck.
IE8 sucks too. (Score:4, Interesting)