Youtube To Kill Ie6 Support On March 13

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YouTube to kill IE6 support on March 13

by Emil Protalinski

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 via a page on Google.com titled Solve a Problem: Upgrading your browser.

YouTube will have an interstitial appear when users on older browser try to watch a video on YouTube. Google says the interstitial will show up indefinitely every two weeks until the user upgrades to the most recent version of their browser. Google deems anything below IE7, Firefox 3.0, Chrome 4.0, and Safari 3.0 as an "older browser." Users on these browsers will still be able to watch YouTube videos, but additional features that Google plans to roll out may not be supported in these older browsers.

Late last month, Google announced it will end old browser support for Google Docs and Google Sites on March 1, 2010 and earlier this month, the company announced it would start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar by year end. Google is pushing both enterprise and consumer users towards newer browsers on all its Web properties.

Google's stance on IE6 varies from Microsoft's because the search giant does not need to support Windows XP, the operating system with which IE6 first shipped, as long as Redmond (which will support XP and IE6 until April 8, 2014). Microsoft, on the other hand, which has stated time and time again that it wants to see IE6 disappear as much as anyone else, refuses to force anyone to upgrade (though it's worth noting that the software giant's Office Web Apps won't support IE6 either, just like Google Docs) and says the decision is ultimately up to the user.

Microsoft is trying to push users to upgrade by touting IE8's many features over IE6, particularly in the area of security. So far, this has worked relatively well, as IE8 is the most popular browser, although IE6 is still used by about 20 percent of surfers worldwide, according to NetApplications.

Source: Ars Technica

[welo]

Hurray, kill that old b?!@$!!!

[d0ndela]

God bless YouTube. If they can help pushing that old horse out of the market it will make implementing websites so much more hassle-free and painless.

[H2oDunc]

Met a guy the other day who was still running Windows 95. He was quite happy with it as it did all he needed and felt no need to upgrade

[Thanh-BKK]

Met a guy the other day who was still running Windows 95. He was quite happy with it as it did all he needed and felt no need to upgrade

Hehehe.......

I have one certain program that i use quite often to edit photos with.... it is called ULead iPhoto Plus 4 and i got it in 1999 along with a scanner. I had this on Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP and Vista. Always worked fine, it is a standalone executable and runs perfectly off a flash drive etc, no install required.......

Sadly it does NOT run under Wine so i can't use it on Linux. But now i am using Linux as OS, so what to do?

Right. VMware and an old Windows 95 CD. Booting my virtualized Windows 95 is faster than opening Photoshop and that little editing that i do my iPhoto Plus handles perfectly...... so such old OS' still have their right to exist.

And yes, it interacts perfectly with the Linux host and that way i can even read from and write to NTFS partitions with Windows 95. If Microsoft would have ever imagined that??

Kind regards.....

Thanh