Question

How can we distract our clients from using IE6. We know IE6 is not a good standard-compliant browsers; has many issues. How to satisfy clients so that they do not use IE6?

Thanks…

Answer 1

I’m currently in the process of building a new site for my company and I’ve been looking at http://code.google.com/p/ie6-upgrade-warning/.

Essentially it’s a little javascript lib that checks to see if the user is running IE6 and if so it displays a nice little overlay on top of your site. The only problem I’ve got with it is that it completely blocks the user from using your site. I’d like to allow for them to use it anyways but I’d like them to know that their experience may not be as good as it could be. I’m sure it can be adapted though, you should never exclude people from using your site based on their user agent. That being said I think it’s a good tradeoff that you try to get your users to upgrade and if they don’t wan’t to they can still use your site but they probably won’t see all of the fancy pancy browser tricks that you can do with modern browsers.

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It sure looks nice anyway

Other resources include http://ie6update.com/ (not a fan though, you shouldn’t trick users)

Update: Seems like someone made a bit more customizable version of this written in jQuery. See jreject.turnwheel.com