On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 11:20 AM, tee <weblis...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am finally to begin to stop supporting IE6 starts from 2011 as the usage > has fallen below 5%. I don't want the IE6 users to see a broken page due to > no special treatment made for the browser, rather, I would like them to see > an un-styled page as if the style sheet has switch off. > > Can this be done?
Yes. For example, you could: (1) Use conditional comments to exclude the IE6 (or earlier) engine: http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/conditionalcomments or (2) Use the HTTP User-Agent header to serve different markup to IE6. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537503(v=vs.85).aspx User-Agent headers are sometimes spoofed. On the other hand, they provide a more general mechanism that can be used to exclude styles/script from other old user agents (e.g. old Mozilla versions). Note that when doing sniffing of this sort, it is better to differentiate the experience for known-bad browsers and assume all other browsers are fully capable, so that users of capable minority browsers are not locked out or forced to spoof. In other words: use a blacklist not a whitelist. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
