warning for IE 6
Internet Explorer 6 is the worst, yuck, for the post i will refer to IE 6 as The Yucky. As a web devoloper you have to make sure your websites and web apps run nicely in all of the web browsers out there. It always seems like The Yucky gives me the most problems, nothing every looks exactly the way i designed it and not to mention that it runs slower than every other browser and that it does have tabs and there are security issues and there is just no reason to be running The Yucky at all. I ran into an artical expressed my same feelings and had a neat little word press plugin to help with getting people off of The Yucky and into a newer browser that enhance there internet experence. This plug pops up a warning “You are using Internet Explorer version 6.0 or lower. Due to security issues and lack of support for Web Standards it is highly recommended that you upgrade to a modern browser.” and give the user a link to download several other browsers.
The plug in is called Shockingly Big IE6 Warning, which is named appropaly. Like every other word press plugin it was easy to install and easy to set up.
You can choose from 3 types of warning:
- TOP, a discreet top bar
- FULL, a fullscreen warning
- CRASH, the mean option
I choose the full warning type because i want people to be informed and go to my site but i was tempted to just crash The Yucky everytime someone came to my site. So hopefully people start to get off of The Yucky and start using a browser that will cruse you around the internets faster.
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