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Web Developers: help rid the world of IE6 with a simple script
@staringispolite has created a simple, open source way that you can help drive the IE6 demon out of our Internet. The Google Code project is called, aptly enough, sevenup. It's inspired by both Google's effort and the movement started by a group of Norweigan websites.
It's a 1k javascript that displays a polite CSS reminder to people who visit your site using IE6 that they should seriously consider upgrading their browser to something a bit more modern. It's respectfully done, though, and includes an option for the user to dismiss the reminder and never be bothered again.
Sure, you could do this on your own from scratch, but sevenup is ready to use and easy to integrate. Do your part to save less tech-savvy web surfers from their browser!
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Miguel said 3:06PM on 3-20-2009
I would love to implement something like this on the website I work on. I am really not looking forward to having to test three IE browsers and am sick of users who have opted to keep IE6.
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Ken said 7:14PM on 3-20-2009
IE7 has a horrible user interface, and all but rquired a complete rebuild of my XP machine. I tolerate it on my wife's Vista box, but won't allow it on myine. I'll stick w/ firefox or chrome.
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casey said 12:18AM on 3-21-2009
I think I am going to apply this to my sites... with a little improvement
I am going to rewrite the "here" url to go to http:// getfirefox .com
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nano said 12:51AM on 3-21-2009
I'm a web programmer and I quickly dismiss pop up windows as being ads or those fake virus detection windows that alert you to install something. I would be afraid that my visitors would think that my website is filled with this kind of garbage.
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asurroca said 4:04PM on 3-21-2009
I agree. I think the best route might be a notification area above your navigation area, which many sites use to notify users of new features (I'm thinking Facebook, Digg, Flickr for example).
Addy said 2:39AM on 3-21-2009
And half of the computers in my university still run on IE5...
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Tom Moitie said 10:04AM on 3-21-2009
Most IT dptmnts have IE6 installed across their entire company. These people have no option but to use IE6, so you'd be alienating a lot of users.
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Korangulation said 11:13AM on 3-21-2009
One of the best ways to get me to close your website and go away is to tell me to use a different browser. I'll just find another website that doesn't tell me what to do with my computer.
This is coming from a web developer and an Opera user.
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Kib said 2:48PM on 3-21-2009
Our IT dept still has 75% of the machines running Win 2K. IE 7 and up is not an option.
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Malteserr said 3:03PM on 3-21-2009
I'm all for upgrading to IE 7, but our network administrator is a nazi that doesn't let anyone mess with the system... and he refuses to upgrade from IE6.
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??? said 4:34PM on 3-21-2009
I still have IE6. I just don't bother to use it...unless it's for something like checking my other Gmail account (and I don't want to sign off the one on FF)
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Luis said 10:59PM on 3-21-2009
I'm not trying to plug this guys site, I just like how he's gone about promoting better browsers:
http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=home
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Glen said 6:14PM on 3-21-2009
Web developers unite! If we all block IE6, and I mean ALL, from using websites we develop. Then the dark ages of the web will pass.
If google did the same it would happen alot faster!
The nazi it departments will be forced to get of their bums and install something better.
The barely tech literate users at home and the lazy will follow the instructions on how to install firefox.
Then all those wasted hours of writing ie6 support can go into advancing the web.
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Quikboy said 3:17PM on 3-22-2009
The problem isn't limited to upgrading - You still have a bunch of websites that these companies need to use that only work in IE6. Sad, but that's just plain true. Until those website makers fix their sites up, there's not much hope.
Bear Bottoms said 5:56PM on 3-22-2009
Include one small JS file in the header of your page, and call the testing function like so:
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I loaded the file sevenup.0.2.min.js on my server in the root directory of my homepage. I included the two lines of code above in the header section of my website. It didn't work, and was not W3C compliant!
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RanMan said 10:26AM on 3-23-2009
Just to add to the comments regarding the use of IE6. . . . my wife does a lot of "at home" work for several companies (Fortune 100) and she is forced to use IE6. The online customer service applications only operate on IE6. I am not talking about a few, I am talking about dozens of these companies applications are restricted to IE6 and that's just the ones she works for. There are probably hundreds of companies still using IE6. Until the use of IE6 actually starts to impact their "bottom line", especially during these tough economic times, it is unlikely they are going to spend the money and IT resources to update their applications to support anything but IE6. We have tried the apps with IE7 and even Firefox and they simple do not work. Critical windows required to perform her job for companies like Staples, Carnival Cruise lines, etc. do not work properly or don't open at all.
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Keith said 4:43PM on 3-30-2009
My company actually REQUIRES our customers to use IE6.
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Doranwen said 10:05PM on 4-18-2009
I stick with IE6 for a couple reasons:
1. I mainly use Firefox anyway, so I'm not really worried about security (the only pages I load in IE are ones I know are safe but need IE to work properly).
2. When I do use IE, I can't STAND the look of IE7. The buttons are UGLY! Plus, I can't stand that IE7 all of a sudden locked up how much customizability control one had over the system. With IE6 I can drag buttons around, maybe not as much in Firefox, but I have some control. With IE7 I'm stuck with THEIR configuration. And that's annoys the heck out of me. So I won't touch it if I can help it.
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