noIE popup

els · 2007-12-16 17:53:22

Unfortunately more than 30% of my own site’s visitors – and even more of some clients’ sites I’ve made – are IE6 users :( and I am looking for a way to let them know that they really shouldn’t do that anymore, without scaring them away from my site.
I like the idea behind the noIE popup, but not the way it actually works: every time a visitor follows an external link, they will see the noIE popup. I think this is a good way to make sure they will never visit your site again, especially if you have lots of external links…
What I’d like to see is that the popup only shows when a visitor leaves the site in any other way, e.g. when closing the browser or manually typing another URL. (Edit: or maybe just when entering the site?) Does anyone know of a way to do this, or have you found other ways to gently point those visitors to other browsers? I don’t think that just having a ‘Browse Happy’ or ‘Get Firefox’ link somewhere on the page is really going to help…

Last edited by els (2007-12-16 19:42:01)

Neko · 2007-12-19 16:55:40

What about something like the very top div like in this site:

http://www.merixstudio.com/

You can even click the close icon and get rid of it.

els · 2007-12-19 17:29:08

Thank you Neko! That would be a friendly warning indeed. I thought about a conditional display, but the possibility to even close it is really elegant. I’m going to figure out how to do that, can’t be too hard.

Thanks again.

Neko · 2007-12-28 01:17:02

Well, let us know when you’ll find a solution. I guess the conditional CSS would be OK, combined with some JS that sets a cookie when the close link is clicked.

Mary · 2007-12-28 01:29:31

My personal site does something quite mild, but is, perhaps, too mild. Don’t forget you can have a simple link, with or without a graphic, that has text that will really grab attention, based on what you think your visitors would best respond to.

els · 2007-12-28 15:53:33

That is indeed a rather mild warning on your site, Mary, but I think I shouldn’t make it more severe than that. At the moment one third of my visitors are IE7 users, and one third IE6 :(
I haven’t had the time to have a further look at the possibilities, and tomorrow I’m going on a short holiday, so it has to wait a little longer, but I will post here when I’ve found a suitable solution.

colak · 2007-12-28 16:43:35

Mary wrote:

My personal site does something quite mild, but is, perhaps, too mild. Don’t forget you can have a simple link, with or without a graphic, that has text that will really grab attention, based on what you think your visitors would best respond to.

Mary,
I like the way you did it, but your polite ‘conditional suggestion’ is not visible on ie mac.

Last edited by colak (2007-12-28 16:46:26)

els · 2008-01-16 01:01:40

The example on the site Neko linked to has gone, and I don’t know how to make a div that can be closed (or better: I don’t have the time right now to figure it out). So this is what I did for now (only on the front page). It just says that IE6 is an outdated and unsafe browser, and it’s time to switch.
Now I’ll just have to wait and see if the 33% is going to drop… If not, it’s too mild ;)

Neko · 2008-01-16 13:39:23

Hey Els, if you want you can take the closing div code from here:

http://www.gamesblog.it/ (the side bar thing on the right).

els · 2008-01-16 22:57:57

Thanks Neko, I’ll have a look at that when I have more time.

colak · 2008-01-26 19:03:40

Hi Els
I’m not sure where you are with this but I found some time to read some php tutorials (still in the very beginning) and came across this little snippet which might be of use

els · 2008-01-26 21:15:32

Hi Yiannis, thank you! There is also a plugin (ako_ifBrowser) that uses the same method to check which UA is being used (it can handle a lot more than just IE, but all I need to do right now is detect IE). At the moment I’m using this

<!--[if lte IE 6]>
	a certain message
<![endif]-->

Can you or someone else tell me which is the best way to do it? If I correctly understand the comment on the page you linked to (and I’m not sure I do), PHP is not recommended for this kind of thing.

Last edited by els (2008-01-26 21:18:56)

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