Tuesday, February 23, 2010

YouTube to remove support for IE 6

Come March 13, 2010, YouTube will no longer officially support Internet Explorer 6.

Ars Technica found the specific date buried in a YouTube Help item pertaining to browser support. Under the section header, “When does older browser support end for YouTube (YouTube) and what does this mean?,” it reads:


"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 support entry also details that Google’s YouTube will notify site visitors of the change in browser support by displaying an interstitial every two weeks indefinitely until the user upgrades that will serve as a very blatant visual reminder and encourage IE6 browsers to upgrade accordingly.

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