On Wednesday 03 March 2004 01:38 am, anton wrote: > Hi, > I am about to block IE users from my website (using php) and wanted to > get the maximum bang for buck. Please have a look at the following > messages and give me your opinion on what is likely to have the most > positive (deliberately leaving that for interpretation as you will) effect! >
What is the ultimate goal of this? Are you interested in advertising other browsers to inform people about the extremely poor security record of IE on windows machines? Or are you simply on a crusade to freeze out IE because MS has tried to do the same thing to other browsers? And if the latter, if you feel that the tactics of MS in doing so are poor, what makes you think that you are any better by adopting the exact same tactics? Personally, I think that the second is the most positive, but would prefer to see an interim redirect for IE users that informs them of some of the potential security issues involved with using IE but then allows them to proceed anyway. In fact, you could add some verbiage listing recent issues, failed patches, links pointing to articles and finally, a blurb saying, if you wish to proceed knowing the security risks, click here. Personally, I think that option is much more professional and demonstrates more clearly the open source philosophy. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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