It’s finally happening. The Internet can move forward at last.

YouTube has announced that it will no longer support IE6. IE6 is the default web browser on Windows XP and for years has been the most popular web browser. Unfortunately its popularly was never reflective of its functionality, security, or its ability to compile web pages in a sensible manner.

IE6 poses incredible headaches for web developers such as myself. Many hours can be wasted on a project attempting to get even the most trivial styles to appear any bit sensible in this arcaic browser.

YouTube dropping support for IE6 will blimp the world into following suit. The new Mile Zero website that I am developing with Sparling already encouages IE6 users to upgrade before viewing the website.

This announcement calls for a celebration.

Gregory The Web IE6, Internet Explorer, YouTube