On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 1:59 AM, David
Gerard<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah, but something more subtle might actually be appropriate.
Presumably IE6 lingers so long because it doesn't cause *users* any
problems. All the headache is on the side of web developers. If you
make it a problem for users (eg, youtube doesn't work anymore, iirc),
then they eventually make enough noise to bug their corporate masters
to switch.
Question is, where to draw the line? A simple "You're using a crappy
browser, please upgrade" banner will be efficiently ignored. Refusal
to serve the page at all is obnoxious. You need something a little
sneaky like "You're using IE6. Retrieving IE6 support from software
archive...loading....loading...<5 seconds>...done" Ok, that's
obnoxious too, but it's the kind of thing users eventually go "Can I
please have another browser, wikipedia is so slow".
Steve
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