I'm building an app and have no intentions of support IE6 at this time. To be fair to IE6, I want IE6 users to know that and not think the app was made by incompetent developers.
I was hoping a JQUERY Plug-In would be available that would provide a nice StackOverflow style alert at the top of the page, plug & play and I'm done. Surprisingly I'm not find such a plug-in.
Does anyone know of any plug-ins that could do the IE6 Detection and as a nice to have the warning? Seems like this is a common thing these days.
Thanks
I'm building an app and have no intentions of support IE6 at this time. To be fair to IE6, I want IE6 users to know that and not think the app was made by incompetent developers.
I was hoping a JQUERY Plug-In would be available that would provide a nice StackOverflow style alert at the top of the page, plug & play and I'm done. Surprisingly I'm not find such a plug-in.
Does anyone know of any plug-ins that could do the IE6 Detection and as a nice to have the warning? Seems like this is a common thing these days.
Thanks
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4 Answers
Reset to default 24Use Conditionals and CSS
If you have a header include type file, (or something like the layout in Rails), just use the IE conditionals:
<body>
<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<div id="ie-warning">This site does not support IE6</div>
<![endif]-->
And then use simple styling in your stylesheet.
Or, if you really want jQuery:
Here is a simple jQuery script that does what you want. Copy this and save it to jquery.ie6.js:
(function($){
$(function(){
var message = "This site does not support Internet Explorer 6. Please consider downloading a <a href='http://firefox.com'>newer browser</a>.",
div = $('<div id="ie-warning"></div>').html(message).css({
'height': '50px',
'line-height': '50px',
'background-color':'#f9db17',
'text-align':'center',
'font-family':'Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif',
'font-size':'12pt',
'font-weight':'bold',
'color':'black'
}).hide().find('a').css({color:'#333'}).end();
div.prependTo(document.body).slideDown(500);
});
})(jQuery);
And then put this in the head (after the inclusion of jQuery of course) of your page:
<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<script src="jquery.ie6.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
<![endif]-->
DEMO
This demo is set to show in all browsers, but if you include it as I showed between the if lte IE 6 conditional comments, it will only show up in IE6 and older versions of IE.
IE6Update. It's lightweight and standalone; it doesn't need jQuery, but it will work just fine if you are using jQuery.
i know this has been answered but i just found this jQuery plugin lets you put up a customised message.
http://politeiewarning.blogspot.com/
check out the jQuery.browser utility
if ($.browser.msie && jQuery.browser.version.substr(0,1)=='6') ...