YouTube Dropping IE6 Support March 13

Mountain View is continuing its crusade against IE6, announcing that support for the world's worst browser will be dropped from video behemoth, YouTube. Google has been pulling support for IE6 from its products for some time, and this is another nail in the coffin. In fact, the Aten Design Group in Denver, Colorado is holding a funeral for the antiquated browser on March 4, just a few days before Google yanks YouTube support. Ars Technica discovered the information yesterday when they stumbled upon an interstitial that users on older browsers would see when attempting to watch a video. The interstitial helps select a new browser and lets the user know that YouTube will no longer support the current browser as of March 13.

Google Apps Puts Another Nail In IE6's Coffin

Last Friday, Google announced that as of March 1, 2010, they are dropping support for older browsers including the macdaddy of terrible web-rendering, Internet Exploder 6 (heh, see what I did there?). Google yanked support for IE6 from Google Apps, Google Docs, and Google Sites, leaving behind a list of compatible browsers consisting of: IE7.0+, Firefox 3.0+, Chrome 4.0+, and Safari 3.0+.

This isn't so much a jab at Microsoft so much as it is all the companies who are STILL USING IT. Want to use Google Docs, Apps, and Sites? Update your software to be compatible with new browsers. There's no excuse for remaining on an ancient platform. But still, lately the entire intarwebz has been very adamant about not supporting IE6 anymore, so maybe this will stir up the crowds enough to finally get everyone to make the jump.