How to join the war against IE6 on your own websites

The war against IE6 is gaining far more momentum then anyone would have believed just 24 hours ago. And I am pretty sure that we'll within about a month or so be almost chemically cleansed of IE6 in the entire Norway. At least IE6 will not have any significant market share what so ever within some very short amount of time, which I think is *GREAT*...! :)



But this campaign MUST spread across the entire world to really make a difference, we cannot afford to let this be a "Norwegian compaign". Our fellow soulmates in the entire world must follow up on this!

So how do you do that if you're an "average webmaster" and want to warn your users about IE. Well, Erlend Schei wrote a pretty nice Norwegian description about how you should do this which I have translated into English (plus adding some Firefox/Chrome/Opera links to ;)

Here it is;

<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<div 
  style="border:3px solid #090; margin:8px 0; background:#cfc; color:#000;width:700px;">
    <h4 
      style="margin:8px; padding:0;">
        Heads up! You're using an older version of Internet Explorer.
    </h4>
    <p style="margin:8px; padding:0;">
      To get the maximum amount of pleasure while browsing this and other websites
      you can download for free any one of these 
      <a href="http://getfirefox.com">FireFox</a>, 
      <a href="http://google.com/chrome">Chrome</a>, 
      <a href="http://opera.com">Opera</a> or 
      <a href="http://apple.com/safari">Safari</a>.
      If you are using a work computer where you are not allowed to install software yourself you 
      can use <a href="http://portableapps.com/">Portable Apps</a> 
      to make it possible to run FireFox without even having to "install" it...
    </p>
</div>
<![endif]-->

This should display something like this for your visitors that are using IE6;



Now just copy and paster the above HTML into your website template or something, and "voila" - you're a soldier for justice and Open Standard :)

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