On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 06:07:02PM -0600, Paul Tiemann wrote:
> IE6-is-dead parties. Could some intelligent web designers come up > with a few snippets of code in the various web flavors (PHP, ASP, > JSP, etc) for people to easily install and include on their sites > (as part of a movement to discourage old browser usage and encourage > better security on the web...) If an old browser is detected, a > friendly warning message or even an error message appears, along > with links to the site explaining the movement... Already exists: http://code.google.com/p/ie6-upgrade-warning/ - JS, displays a nice dialog telling the user why they should upgrade and links to download a new IE, Firefox, Chrome, etc. http://drupal.org/project/iedestroyer - Drupal (CMS) plugin http://www.crashie.com/ - if you're feeling malicious, just include the one line JavaScript that will make IE6 crash, maybe eventually the user will figure it out. (Or maybe not). Or a block of pretty much plain old HTML: http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=196674 Ultimately though, the only thing that's going to get some people off IE6 is the machines they are running it off of finally dying, either due to hardware failure or being so badly owned by worms that the machine becomes inoperable, at which point it goes into the trash and they buy a new one. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com
