Gavin Pearce

Today I uploaded two new features to this website, only visible to our friends still using Internet Explorer 6.

First, is the Active Bar, from the guys at IE6update.com. There’s been a lot of debate on this topic – and whether it’s a good idea to mislead users into upgrading. My own views on the topic, if a user is mislead by this banner, and upgrades from IE6 to IE8 – then no harm done, and one more person’s computer integrity saved.

I would start questioning morals if people starting using this to link to Firefox or other browsers though …

Secondly, a warning message at the top of every page:

These might seem a bit strong, especially for people who can’t upgrade from IE6 within their corporate environment – but the site is still accessible to these users. I strongly believe IE6 is out-dated, and provides a big security risk for those using it – as well as not following any of the decent web standards. The sooner we can convince users to upgrade, or bully their network admins into doing something about it, the better.

And for those who are still not convinced, you can always sign the petition to save IE6:

www.saveie6.com