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I’m taking a stand against IE 6 – cause it can go F*CK itself

After a long past few days fixing someone’s code for an un-named website to look good across all browsers, I decided I hate IE 6 more than ever. Even though I will still continue to support IE 6 in clients websites (for now), I’ve decided to f*cking phase them out permanently on my sites. It’s been way too long, people get your sh*t together and just upgrade. And for you that are in countries where you can’t upgrade for what ever reason beyond your desirable pleasure… I feel sorry for you.

I’m taking a stand now. If you wanna join in and make IE 6 users experience at viewing your site the opposite of enjoyable here’s how. Copy the code below and put it right under your <body> tag. Then just add the css from below as well. Then if a user using anything <= IE 6 they will get the message loud and clear.

<!--[if lte IE 6]><div>Common get it together!! You're using an out of date browser (released more than 7 years ago). To view this page properly, we recommend using a modern, standards-compliant browser - such as <a href="http://www.firefox.com">Firefox</a>, <a href="http://www.opera.com/">Opera</a>, <a href="http://www.apple.com/safari/">Safari</a> or <a href="http://www.google.com/chrome">Google Chrome</a>. All of which are 100% free.</div><![endif]-->

Now the CSS

.ie_notice {margin:5px 0;padding:10px;border:1px solid #dedeb9;background:#ffffd4;text-align:center;color:black;font-size:1.5em;}
.ie_notice strong, .ie_notice a{color:red;}

Of course you can style it anyway your heart desires, but the main point is your helping rid the world of the LAMEST BROWSER EVER. Common peeps it will be fun!

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23. Sep, 2009
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Run ie 5, 5.5, 6 and 7 without parallels or boot camp on os x

Mike has a cool application to allow you to run a number of ie’s in os x with a simple install, without having to boot up in windows operating system like parallels or boot camp. Now I haven’t read up too much about this project or tested it, but it seems pretty sweet! Booting in Parallels really takes a while so for something like this => excited! Also Derek from 5thirtyone has a good write up on this.

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11. Feb, 2008
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Internet Explorer and Flash “Click to activate” Control

I am getting sick of seeing websites with flash content in them that you have to “click to activate” to interact with the flash object. It’s all good if it’s just an ad or something that doesn’t need user interaction, but if it is needing user interaction making them have to click the flash object can be annoying and confusing. Well this is a fairly simple fix. Bobby Vandersluis has the best work around that I have found. His Unobtrusive Flash Object DOM script is one of the best! So simple and so delicious! Your Flash Objects will validate and do a whole bunch more. Enough said go give it a try.

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21. Sep, 2007