On Dec 20, 2010, at 12:26 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2010/12/20 13:13 (GMT-0500) Erickson, Kevin (DOE) composed: > >> I like the "let it fail gracefully" method. And, using something like >> <!--[if IE 6]><link rel="stylesheet" href="/styles >> /ie6_detection_message.css" media="screen" type="text/css" >> /><![endif]-->, display a message for IE 6 only, "You are using IE 6. >> Please upgrade your browser to view this site correctly."
For those who still think IE6 users shouldn't be treated less user experience wise and that we shouldn't advocate abandoning the browser, I think something needs to take into account, that IE6 and 7 have serious security flaws, if a site is static it probably is OK, but for sites that collect user data and CC info than there is a good reason to advice and advocate IE6 users to stay away from the browser. One of my clients did an implementation on his site, year ago the usage of IE6 was over 15%; he had me put up an IE6 no more banner, 6 months later, the usage only dropped some 3%. Then I read news about Google got hacked and that Microsoft asked users to abandon IE6, so I suggested client placed a message about the security vulnerability. The usage fell below 6% in a couple months, tough I can't be 100% sure it's the message that helped bringing down the percentage, but I think it helped greatly than a passive "You are using an outdated browser. For a better experience using this site, please upgrade to a modern web browser". tee ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
