Google will not support Internet Explorer 6 and other old version browsers going forward

Google is going to discontinue its support for YouTube in Internet Explorer 6. They have stopped supporting Internet Explorer 6 in Google Apps  long back and google have plans to stop IE 6 support for  GMail and Google calendar by this year end.It was always a pain for designers to support internet explorer 6 due to its misbehavior for many CSS tags. Now Google set a target date for it – 13 March.

Going forward users visiting YouTube on IE6 and other old browsers , will be shown an interstitial warning that support for their browser will be dropped by 13 March. It also gives a links to some browsers that the user can use and upgrade. The interstitial will appear every two weeks to remind any users still on older browsers to upgrade to the most recent version of their browser.

Support will be revoked for following versions of browssers

* browser older than Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0
* browser older than Mozilla Firefox 3.0
* browser older than Google Chrome 4.0
* browser older than Safari 3.0+

Users who are not upgrading their browsers will still be able to view the video but many of the new features which are going to be rolled out will not be supported on those browsers.

Tags: ie6