Internet Explorer 6 has been a pain in everyone’s side. Standards, you say? What are these standards? Everyone hates IE 6 and that is including the people who actually use it. So who still uses Internet Explorer 6?
1. Company Employees Trying To Make The Day Go By Faster At Work
2. The People Too Lazy To Update There Computers via Windows Update
Well, Youtube says no longer, and has released a warning for IE 6 users telling them to update or eventually your favorite Boyce Avenue video will no longer play. The alternative browsers? Google Chrome (conveniently shown first), Internet Explorer 7 8 and Firefox 3.5 with no love for Safari or Opera.
This makes sense on Youtube’s part, making Youtube compatible with IE 6 is like scraping your nails across a board, absolutely horrendous. It also wastes a lot of time and in Youtube’s case, money. We here at Techgeist didn’t even bother to make the site compatible with IE 6 to begin with.
This does suck for the people with company laptops, in most cases they have no option to use an alternative browser because of various restrictions. I suppose you could argue that they shouldn’t be on Youtube anyways so who cares.
On a positive note, the death of IE 6 is coming and any web developer (of any caliber) should be jumping for joy. I sure as hell am.
Via Techcrunch
