Instruction how to youtube in IE11 in August 2022 (workaround)

[winxpi]

Ofcourse you know youtube.com isnt really accessible with IE11 anymore, sinche Microsoft said that IE11 is deprecated.

So if you try to access youtube from IE11 you wont have luck because you get "referred" to

https://www.youtube.com/supported_browsers

But if you have a video and you use IE11 and you need to quickly open it in IE11 (for whatever reason) there is a workaround.

You need the infamous w3c tryit page from https://www.w3schools.com/tryit/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_hello

There you can paste an embed code like this:

<iframe width="1289" height="561" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YOUTUBEVID" title="TITLE OF VIDEO" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
 

But instead of the YOUTUBEVID you enter the video-id you wont. E.g. FjIr4PdHm1c for the Video-ID of the video "Internet Explorer 11: Getting started with Internet Explorer 11".

Ofcourse you could also write that in a plain html file but I really like to use w3schools.com it has alot of hidden features that I cant really describe now atleast I can say that about youtube related embeding. Aslong as nothing critical happens to the embedding coding this should also work on Internet Explorer 11.

 

However I dont recommend you to use Internet Explorer 11 besides for compability reasons for old pages or apps (prior to the official support ending).

This is because even msfn.org wont be displayed correctly in IE11. And if that happens it sure is a sign that a browser is loosing alot of its compability to modern web standards. Even thought some pages may still be IE11-friendly. But that cannot be guaranteed for the future.

Edited August 23, 2022 by Tripredacus
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