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Re: A mighty fortress is our PKI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Lloyd)
Tue Jul 27 20:49:35 2010
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:44:43 -0400
From: Jack Lloyd <lloyd@randombit.net>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 06:07:02PM -0600, Paul Tiemann wrote:
> IE6-is-dead parties. Could some intelligent web designers come up
> with a few snippets of code in the various web flavors (PHP, ASP,
> JSP, etc) for people to easily install and include on their sites
> (as part of a movement to discourage old browser usage and encourage
> better security on the web...) If an old browser is detected, a
> friendly warning message or even an error message appears, along
> with links to the site explaining the movement...
Already exists:
http://code.google.com/p/ie6-upgrade-warning/ - JS, displays a nice
dialog telling the user why they should upgrade and links to download
a new IE, Firefox, Chrome, etc.
http://drupal.org/project/iedestroyer - Drupal (CMS) plugin
http://www.crashie.com/ - if you're feeling malicious, just include
the one line JavaScript that will make IE6 crash, maybe eventually the
user will figure it out. (Or maybe not).
Or a block of pretty much plain old HTML:
http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=196674
Ultimately though, the only thing that's going to get some people off
IE6 is the machines they are running it off of finally dying, either
due to hardware failure or being so badly owned by worms that the
machine becomes inoperable, at which point it goes into the trash
and they buy a new one.
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