Mark Poppen

I’ve quit designing around IE6 a long time ago. I have a contract that states that if my client needs me to design the site to work in IE6, they pay extra. For the other sites, when I suspect the target audience might use IE6, I wrote a little piece of code. It’s validated in 4.01 Strict HTML and stays out of the way of Google search results (because it’s at the bottom of the page).

Let me know if you’re using it or if you made improvements to it.

Here it is. Put the html right before the </body> tag, and the css at the bottom of your .css file.

<!–[if lt IE 7]>
<div id=”upgrade”>You are using an outdated browser. For a faster, safer surfing experience, please <a href=”http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx”>upgrade for free</a>.</div>
<![endif]–>

/*-- IE6 --*/
#upgrade {
	position: absolute;
	top: 0;
	left: 0;
	width: 100%;
	background-color: #ff0;
	}

Seriously, do!
Dropbox is an online backup system and it saved my butt a few times already. You know, you update a website with a wrong css-file? Don’t act all macho, it happened to you, I know I’m not the only one
Dropbox keeps revisions of your files before you change them, so you can always fall back to a previous version.

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… and it was a b!tch…

I don’t know how I did it, but for the first time in YEARS I managed to get a virus on my pc. I’m always protected pretty well with Avast!. It blocks intrusions when it has to, and kills adware instantly, but for some reason Avast! abandoned me this time. It noticed the virus, but I wasn’t able to repair it, move it to the chest or delete it.
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