You are about to get left behind. Starting on March 13th YouTube won’t care about you anymore:
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:
Support stops on March 13th. Stopped support essentially means that some future features on YouTube will be rolled out that won’t work in older browsers.
I can’t recommend enough that you upgrade your browser, not just because of this, but mainly because of the security concerns. IE6 has long been a security nightmare. The newer versions of Internet Explorer are much better. Besides – it’s free to upgrade and can be done in less than 10 minutes.
I wouldn’t have bothered posting on this, but I went through my stats and realized I still have about 10% of my readers on IE6. I know C&L still has close to 7% also and when we do the big upgrade there in a few weeks a lot of the new functionality won’t work on IE6 either.
Technology is changing rapidly and the internet can’t hold back for those that aren’t willing to keep up. Like I said, the upgrade is simple and easy, so what are you waiting for?