With Windows XP SP2 being delayed until the autumn, I have decided to encourage visitors to this site to consider switching away from IE and moving to a better browser. Now, if you use IE and pull up the home page, you’ll see the message below:
Upgrade your browser!
You’re using Internet Explorer, which lacks features that many modern browsers have, such as
- Blocking annoying pop-up ads
- Tabbed browsing
- Protection from adware and spyware
- Support for the latest web standards
Try Mozilla Firefox, Opera or Safari and see what you’re missing!
It’s shown using JavaScript (so it only annoys IE users), and if you want to add it to your own site, download this file and paste it on to your site. Modify it as you wish. Let’s get together and encourage people to adopt better browsers.
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May 9, 2004 at 10:20
What about Camino ?
May 9, 2004 at 12:20
Camino is good but not many people have Macs (so I didn’t want too many mac browsers there) and I already have a Mozilla-based browser there.
May 10, 2004 at 22:36
Browser switch campaign
There’s some new content on the blog’s main index page, exclusively for those viewing it in Internet Explorer. Lucky you. Not for everyone else, as that’d be preaching to the converted, but I’ll explain anyway. Following the lead of Neil…
May 12, 2004 at 07:46
You could make this really cool and sniff for Safari, Mozilla flavors, etc as well. Ya know, congraduate people for their geekery!
May 12, 2004 at 08:09
Hmmm, interesting idea…
May 13, 2004 at 13:16
i’m not sure if you read comments on your old posts, but at the moment, i am getting the “upgrade your browser” message when using Opera 7.5. Is there any way around that, if I have Opera set to identify as MSIE 6.0?
May 13, 2004 at 17:08
and how do I get Mozilla running on Pocket PC?