Some days ago, I read about the IE Death March Project, which is a great idea to banish the Internet Explorer 6 from the web, which really gives a lot headache to webdevelopers every day, including myself.
The idea of the project is, that webmasters should stop supporting the ie6 by the end of march 2009.
To support the project, I quickly wrote a little code snippet which can redirect all Internet Explorer 6 – users to an info-page, which explains in short terms, why their browser is so bad. It also gives some information on what these people should do now and how webmasters can help to finally end the life of the ie6.
If you are a webmaster and you also want to stop developing for the Internet Explorer 6, feel free to insert this code snippet into the <head>…</head> section of your HTML-document and all your visitors, who are still using this ancient browser will be forwarded to this info-page. All the other non-ie6-users can view your website normally.
There is also a Drupal6 module and a WordPress plugin available to automate this feature.
A lot of languages are supported. Check this site out for more information on localisation.
Please digg this if you like my plugin. Thank you.
Here is a preview what a Internet Explorer 6 user would see:
Screenshot Anti-Internet-Explorer-6 plugin
My name is Timo Ernst and I am an expert for UI design and web technologies.
koenntest du noch die seite veroeffentlichen, die die ie6 user zu sehen bekommen.
man will ja wissen, wohin man weiterleitet.
Ja, das ist sicherlich noch sinnvoll. Danke für den Hinweis.
Hab jetzt einfach mal zwei Screenshots hinzugefügt.
Awesume… I am using it on my wordpressblog and i have installed the same plugin on my sisters wordpressblog. Great to know that one doesnt have to bother with the ie6 or older users. a big thanks from me…
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Nice module. great idea.
exactly what I need. Except it’s not working in Drupal 6.
perhaps you should submit this to the CVS on drupal so an issue / knowledge base can be set up for your module to develop it to a stable 1.0 release.
It’s enabled in my modules list, but no action occurs. Refreshed, flushed caches, ran updates etc etc…
@Careless: the drupa guys don’t wanna have the module in the CVS. I’d suggest, you contact Timo via mail and we’ll see, how to fix your problem.