On 2/3/10 1:54 PM, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 1:59 AM, David Gerard<dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> http://danielrw.tumblr.com/post/266672251/hilarious-ie6-splash-screens >> > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > I think this is an interesting idea...
http://blog.pengoworks.com/index.cfm/2008/6/17/An-unobtrusive-way-to-say-IE6-sucks - Trevor _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
