September 25, 2005
Real browser war
Posted by bopuc at September 25, 2005 06:56 PM
I thought of doing this recently. I can't imagine that no one has suggested it earlier.
The amount of times I have heard web developers curse Internet Explorer, only to then sigh, shrug and say "but it's the client's site so...".
Sure, that's fine but... what about YOUR site. I mean your weblog, your personal publishing outlet; you know, that thing that doesn't exist solely to make someone money.
What am I saying? I am saying: shut 'em out. "This site cannot be viewed with the Internet Explorer web-browser. Please download one of these..."
I think WASP used to have a page sort of like this that you could redirect to based on a simple browser detect, but that was years ago, before the Firefox sweep and associated awareness building of how bad IE is. Perhaps now would be a good time for a whoooole bunch of us to do this... ;)
Whatcha thinks? A couple of prepackaged Javascripts people can pop in their pages, plugins for the various blog systems, etc.
Comments
I'm all for it. Give me the JS and I'll plug it in.
Posted by: Adriaan at September 25, 2005 07:04 PM
Maybe something that points them to a page that lets them know there are better alternatives out there (esp now with Opera around), but allows them to get to the original site/page. In other words, more of an anti-IE ad that we insert for people using IE.
Even better would be a colored div that would appear at the top of the page: "WARNING: You are using a bad browser!"... you get the idea. Spread the message but let them get the content anyway.
Ed
p.s. !love! the live preview on the comments...
Posted by: Ed Bilodeau at September 25, 2005 08:31 PM
Ed: nope. no time for niceties anymore. I mean a real war: "You are using a tool that makes life hell for millins of people. I refuse to communicate with you." ;)
IE is the hallitosis of the web. hehehehee
Ado: let's see if there is enough interest. I personally don't really care either way, it's just a thought at this point. :)
Posted by: Boris at September 25, 2005 08:43 PM
The traffic on my site is low enough as it is... :P
Posted by: Ed Bilodeau at September 26, 2005 08:38 AM
Hehehee.. not as low as mine, surely!
I am not advocating this fervently or even recommending it to everyone... just a thought.
Interesting reply though. Do you want more traffic? Why? This of course is a whole other topic. :)
Posted by: Boris at September 26, 2005 11:57 AM
I think that's a great idea. But I'm with Ed. Fire up an advert when views using IE.
Because even I have to use IE sometime - like now at the library.
Posted by: mtl3p at September 27, 2005 09:27 AM
No you don't get it... this is not a vote, or a popularity contest. It's a war.
;)
Posted by: Boris at September 27, 2005 09:54 AM
Interesting discussion.
We are all for it, but well you know… there is this and there is that… oh and what about the people who will miss my content.
As soon as I have fixed one thing (encoding issue due to my editor) in my weblog I will start to do two things.
* serve as application/xhtml+xml
* block search engines.
Yes you read it… google, yahoo, etc. People will not find me and …?
Posted by: karl at September 27, 2005 02:49 PM
Actually that's an even better idea. Serving as application/xhtml+xml is "the way it should be" AND leave IE users shit outta luck. Perfect. :)
Posted by: Boris at September 27, 2005 06:25 PM
Count me in!
Posted by: Oblivia at September 28, 2005 09:38 PM