SevenUp IE6 Warning Plugin

Any web designer worth their salt would agree that IE6 leaves lots to be desired. It's over 8 years old, it's not supported by Microsoft anymore, and it's just about time we encourage (cajole?) everyone to move on and upgrade.

There has been a movement in the past 6 months to notify web visitors that they're using an out-of-date browser. Soon YouTube and FaceBook will officially pull their support. And now you can add this feature easily to your own Joomla site.

Just install this plugin, enable it, and boom you have an IE6 warning.

It's based entirely on the SevenUp code by Howard Jonathan. His project is on Google Code http://code.google.com/p/sevenup/

I hate hearing about my clients' sites being slagged because they look like ick in an outdated, standards-flouting, embarrassment for commercial software like IE6. Let's be done with it!

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byArchangel Michael on October 27, 2009
Needs a bit more work to polish up, but for a .1 version this is very nice. The things not working for me (not critical) are the "Enable Closing" being set to "no", still allows it to be closed.

Regardless, I will be installing once I'm sure it isn't going to explode on me. ;)