IE6 No More! Yeah, I’m jumping on board too…

For those users that browse my website directly on Internet Explorer 6, you may notice that starting today you were confronted with a new warning message. I understand that 25.4% of the visitors that browse my site are using Internet Explorer 6 (probably because they are in a corporate environment) but I have had huge troubles trying to make the site compatible for the old stupid browser. Therefore instead of coding the site to display properly in the outdated browser, I have moved to warn any visitors that hit the site with IE6 that they wont receive the full experience.

For those users in corporate environments, we’d like to start putting pressure on the IT department to upgrade — the more users who complain about seeing the prompts (especially if coming from the top), the more pressure the IT department will have to either upgrade IE 6 or install Firefox side-by-side with IE 6 for compatibility reasons.

Thanks to the ie6nomore.com website for the code that does the check/warn for me.

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