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2/24/2009 9:02 PM
 

Recently, (Feb23) Scott Hanselman posted a blog about the effort to eliminate IE6...(see blog)  I totally agree and suggest you can help too!

I placed the code shown in his blog into the Header section of one of my Text modules on my home page at  www.tressleworks.ca .  So if you view the site with IE6 you will get a notice sugguesting it's time to upgrade.

Just a thought - simple to implement -- and will eventually help all.   Do consider.

Paul.

 

 
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2/24/2009 9:20 PM
 

Hehehe... Very cool.  I like the idea.  Unfortunately, his blog is loading really slow right now though.


Will Strohl

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2/24/2009 9:55 PM
 

Scott uses DasBlog which uses a XML database -- he has commented that is can get slow when the traffic increases .. a good news- bad news situation.   Scott's site seems to be giving 503 errors now... hmmm

So here is the included text 

<!--[if lte IE 6]> 
<style type="text/css"> 
#ie6msg{border:3px solid #c33; margin:8px 0; background:#fcc; color:#000;} 
#ie6msg h4{margin:8px; padding:0;} 
#ie6msg p{margin:8px; padding:0;} 
#ie6msg p a.getie7{font-weight:bold; color:#006;} 
#ie6msg p a.ie6expl{font-weight:bold; color:#006;} 
</style> 
<div id="ie6msg"> 
<h4>Did you know that your browser is out of date?</h4> 
<p>To get the best possible experience using my website I recommend that you upgrade your browser to a newer version. The current version is <a class="getie7" href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/ie/getitnow.mspx">Internet Explorer 7</a> or <a class="getie7" href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/Internet-explorer/beta/default.aspx">Internet Explorer 8 (Beta)</a>. The upgrade is free. If you’re using a PC at work you should contact your IT-administrator. Either way, I'd personally like to encourage you to stop using IE6 and try a more secure and Web Standards-friendly browser.</p> 
<p>You could also try some other popular browsers like <a class="ie6expl" href="http://mozilla.com">FireFox</a> or <a class="ie6expl" href="http://www.opera.com">Opera</a>.</p
</div> 
<![endif]-->    

Just checked Scott's site once again --- seem all is good.

Paul

 
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2/24/2009 11:03 PM
 

Just checked by site to see what type of Browser coverage I am getting -- used the following query:  

select count(useragent) as [count],
Case 
    when charindex('MSIE 5', UserAgent) > 0  then 'IE5'
    when charindex('MSIE 6', UserAgent) > 0  then 'IE6'
    when charindex('MSIE 7', UserAgent) > 0  then 'IE7'
    when charindex('MSIE 8', UserAgent) > 0  then 'IE8'
    when charindex('Firefox', UserAgent) > 0 then 'FF'
    when charindex('Opera', UserAgent) > 0   then 'Opera'
    when charindex('Chrome', UserAgent) > 0  then 'Chrome'
    when charindex('bot', UserAgent) > 0     then 'bot'
    when charindex('slurp', UserAgent) > 0   then 'bot'
    when charindex('crawler', UserAgent) > 0 then 'bot'
    when charindex('spider', UserAgent) > 0  then 'bot'
    when charindex('jeeves', UserAgent) > 0  then 'bot'
    when charindex('google', UserAgent) > 0  then 'bot'
    else 'Other'
end as Browser from dbo.SiteLog 
group by Case 
    when charindex('MSIE 5', UserAgent) > 0  then 'IE5'
    when charindex('MSIE 6', UserAgent) > 0  then 'IE6'
    when charindex('MSIE 7', UserAgent) > 0  then 'IE7'
    when charindex('MSIE 8', UserAgent) > 0  then 'IE8'
    when charindex('Firefox', UserAgent) > 0 then 'FF'
    when charindex('Opera', UserAgent) > 0   then 'Opera'
    when charindex('Chrome', UserAgent) > 0  then 'Chrome'
    when charindex('bot', UserAgent) > 0     then 'bot'
    when charindex('slurp', UserAgent) > 0   then 'bot'
    when charindex('crawler', UserAgent) > 0 then 'bot'
    when charindex('spider', UserAgent) > 0  then 'bot'
    when charindex('jeeves', UserAgent) > 0  then 'bot'
    when charindex('google', UserAgent) > 0  then 'bot'
    else 'Other'
end 
Order by [Count] desc

(if you can improve the Query please suggest)

The result was

57130    bot
16699    IE6  
16409    IE7
7609    FF
1847    Other
723    Chrome
628    Opera
565    IE5
354    IE8

So you can see that IE6 is the most used Browser on my Site.... Ugh! ,  but interesting!

Food for Thought!
Paul.

 

 
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2/25/2009 2:04 AM
 

how about eliminating IE altogether? it is such crap! it used to work fine but with every new version it gets worse and worse..more and more crashes and slow speeds and I do not use any addons..no need for them..I just surf..its ridiculous..FF is so much better...and I would like to give google chrome a shot..seems so basic and easy and google is so good at whatever they do..sorry off track a little bit

 
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