Finaly Google has decided

Hey guys do you know finally Google has decided to drop IE6 support for Youtube. Do you know the reason? post your comment on it, what you think why google done that. I know the answer and will post after your comment.

 

Youtube will stop supporting IE on March 13th. Stopped support essentially means that some future features on YouTube will be rolled out that won’t work in older browsers. It is obvious that Google want to increase its share in browser market.

Also Google has announced that Youtube will display a message for changing the browser.

 

1- the browser is 7 years old,
2- there are two newer successors which are IE 7 & IE8
3- IE6 is so problematic in Development.

 

1. many other companies have already stopped supporting older browsers”.
2. HTML5 which do not work in older browsers
3. IE6 visitors to YouTube are now confronted with the following message

4. many private IE6 users to upgrade their browser
5. etc...

 

Simply because IE Sucks especially IE6 and they want people to start using good web browsers like firefox

 

I appreciated your comment but guys At first I just figured “Cool, we’ll get more people away from IE6.” But the real reason is that they want to promote Chrome: which still not getting much success.

Very clever Google. Evil. But Clever.

 

Hello Friend,

I have no idea but when you will answer , really i will appreciate.

 

they are doing business and they want to promote their product. now makes sense ?

 

Still waiting for a appropriate result

 

can you tell me the proper reason.

 

it's about time as IE6 has so so many bugs it's virtually impossible to create a good website working in IE6.
I don't think it's only because of Chrome but they want to simplify the website.

But even google can't afford screwing with new versions of IE as more than 50% of people use it and supposedly Chrome is really rubbish.

I personally think firefox is the best, IE is the second best and as a webmaster I have to make sure that my website works well there as well. The rest is just rubbish.

 

Good move, IE6 should die ASAP! I hv already stopped giving support to my clients for IE6.

 

IE 6 is the worst browser that i have dealt with

 

chrome is far better then IE,i fell IE has no place is 21st century and should be kicked out coz it is about to die,i will better call IE as grandpa of chrome,but Firefox is immortal

 

If you are going to compare all the browser then fire fox is the best one and according to me chrome is worst

 

Simple reasons
1- Browser compatibility
2- Chrome promotion
3- IE6 uses extra bandwidth.
4- Youtube experience on that browser is not tht good...

 

^ This.

Plus it's full with unaddressed vulnerabilities, quite possibly the worst browser in existence.

 

Because you can get backlink through this

 

Google actually announces a couple of months ago that they will be phasing out IE6 support this year for most of their Google Apps services. I'm glad they have decided to do it as IE6 is old and outdated. It halts progress because people have to design website for the lowest common denominator, which is IE6. Without IE6, people are free to use more advanced techniques. We stopped supporting IE6 last year. Now I wish we could drop IE7. Anybody in web design can tell you that IE6 is an absolute nightmare.

 

what is IE who used it? lolz