YouTube to kill IE6 support on March 13

Re:YouTube to kill IE6 support on March 13 by InclinedPlane on Tuesday February 23, 2010 @09:00PM (#1147043)

In the short-term IE6 users won't see much difference, IE6 won't be blocked, it's just that the youtube devs won't test against IE6 compatibility in the future.

But there's a very real potential not just for "new features" to be unusable for IE6 youtube users but for the entire layout of the page to be broken for IE6 users, rendering the site unusable. Who knows if that will happen but youtube (aka google) is saying now that they don't care whether or not that happens in the future, it's the users' responsibility to upgrade to a more modern browser if they have that problem.

That is indeed very significant.

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Re:YouTube to kill IE6 support on March 13 by briansmith on Tuesday February 23, 2010 @10:27PM (#1147182)

Where did Google say they wouldn't test it in IE6?

AFAICT, they're not going to let it become unusable for IE6 users. That would be silly, because they could just create a IE6-only stylesheet with "display: none" for everything on the page except the Flash video player. A lot of users would actually consider that a significant improvement.

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Re:YouTube to kill IE6 support on March 13 by gscott on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @02:50AM (#1147533)

They have made Adwords pretty much unusable in IE6 but they are unlikely to make a user-centric site like Youtube unusable.

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Re:YouTube to kill IE6 support on March 13 by jrockway on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @01:00AM (#1147383)

There is this lightbulb you can click that sort of does that. I think it's a relatively new feature.

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