[kanger]

Hello

I was wondering, is it possible for a message to crop up when someone using IE6 opens a site where the message says this website is best viewed in a more recent version of IE??

I have a site that is messed up in IE6 and I haven't got time to sort it this week and was wondering if there was some jquery thing or some javascript I could use to set up a message pop up to tell users their browser version is out of date and won't render layout of site correctly.

Thanks for any suggestions

[mteam]

Something like

html

<!--[if IE 6]><p class="IE6browser">This site is optimized for ie7 and above</p><![endif]-->

add some css to style it

.IE6browser{font-size:20px;
color:black;}

[zed]

http://code.google.c...pgrade-warning/

[mrchristoph]

The only problem is that most IE6 users are in large company networks that are built on IE6 - so they will not be able to upgrade their browser even if they wanted to. These people must see so many messed up websites that I'm sure they know that their browser is out of date, I don't think a pop-up message (which might be disabled on their computer system!) will make much difference

[SeattleSEO]

Working a Seattle SEO and IT consultant, I can confirm what mrchristoph said. Most public organizations are just now starting to adopt browsers that use the "tabs" feature!

[kanger]

Thanks for interesting posts. This may be a dumb question, but is there a way of assigning a different style sheet if IE6 is being used? I can edit layout so that it works in IE6, but it then makes it look pants in modern browsers.

[zed]

I'm not seeing the issue anymore. As a UK taxpayer then I don't care if Govt departments cannot see sites outside their intranet, they should be working, not surfing


Kanger, yes, have a read of this http://css-tricks.co...nly-stylesheet/



bugger I forgot to add a link to my company in this thread in hope it may help SEO

[kanger]

zed, on 28 September 2010 - 10:55 AM, said:

Kanger, yes, have a read of this http://css-tricks.co...nly-stylesheet/

Yay! fantastic!! thanks!!

[mteam]

zed, on 28 September 2010 - 10:55 AM, said:

bugger I forgot to add a link to my company in this thread in hope it may help SEO

lol

[amon64]

zed, on 27 September 2010 - 05:49 PM, said:

http://code.google.c...pgrade-warning/

I'm tempted to put that on every one of my sites.

[jasbery]

amon64, on 29 September 2010 - 04:07 PM, said:

I'm tempted to put that on every one of my sites.

I think I'm definitely going to be using it in the future!

[PlanetCreate]

kanger, on 28 September 2010 - 10:09 AM, said:

Thanks for interesting posts. This may be a dumb question, but is there a way of assigning a different style sheet if IE6 is being used? I can edit layout so that it works in IE6, but it then makes it look pants in modern browsers.

Yes very easy.

Below all your other style sheets add the following

<!--[if IE 6]>LINK TO STYLE SHHET<![endif]-->

Then this style sheets kicks in on IE6 and you can make further changes to fix IE6