IE6 Notice - Encourage users to upgrade IE6

IE6 is evil and must die so I've created IE6 Notice a 2kb JavaScript file that adds a notice to sites encouraging users to upgrade from IE6.

• July 28, 2009
• Updated October 2, 2023

What it is ¶

IE6 Notice adds a notice for IE6 users encouraging them to upgrade their browser. Users may choose to hide the notice and their preference will be remembered.

How to use it ¶

Adding the notice to your site just requires you to include a single 2kb JavaScript file in your HTML. Copy the following and paste it before the closing body tag of your HTML. If you’d rather not include a remote JavaScript file on your site you can download the source and host it locally.

<!--[if IE 6]>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://shapeshed.github.com/ie6-notice/ie6notice-1.0.0.min.js"></script>
<![endif]-->

Find out more ¶

There’s a dedicated page for IE6 Notice. You can also grab the source from Github - it is licensed under an Apache License 2.0

Tags

• Browsers
• Microsoft
• Web Standards

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See Also

• Opera's Antitrust Action With Microsoft
  Dec 14, 2007
  Opera have filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission stating that Microsoft is abusing its market position by selling the Windows operating system together with its Internet Explorer browser.

• IE6 not going anywhere soon
  Apr 24, 2008
  I've been monitoring browser statistics on clients over the last few months in order to understand the effects of the IE7 forced update by Microsoft. Among corporate clients it doesn't seem to have had much effect and IE6 looks set to be around for a while.

• Microsoft and IE8 default behaviour
  Mar 4, 2008
  Microsoft has changed its mind about the proposal to use a meta tag to trigger IE8 to use the standards rendering mode.