Re: Fw: Old IE
| From: | Hannes Magnusson | Date: | Tue, 18 May 2010 12:31:38 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Fw: Old IE | ||
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On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 14:20, Richard Quadling
<rquadling@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 18 May 2010 12:55, Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net> wrote:
>> On 18 May 2010 19:45, Mark Scholten <mark@streamservice.nl> wrote:
>>> Could you provide an URL where you get a warning?
>>
>> It appears to be a global thing within include/layout.inc. Here's a
>> screenshot: http://www.adamharvey.name/stuff/ie6update.png
>>
>> I'll admit to being previously unaware of this. I'm all for telling IE
>> 6 users to upgrade in the strongest possible terms (and it should be
>> on every page for the reasons Hannes has posted elsethread while I was
>> sorting out the screenshots), but I'm not entirely comfortable with a
>> piece of JS that appears to emulate browser chrome. It feels phishy.
>> Maybe something more like what Whirlpool does might be better, except
>> I'd put the bar at the top of the page:
>> http://www.adamharvey.name/stuff/whirlpool-ie6.png
>>
>> Yes, I'm volunteering to do this if there's a consensus on that front. :)
I disagree. I'd like to hold true to http://ie6update.com/
> The current method looks similar to the way in which IE will say about
> missing plugins or popups or other security related notices.
Exactly. And that is the intention.
-Hannes