Managing IE6 visitors, the lazy way

Internet Explorer 6Wouldn’t it be great if all your web visitors used the same version of a browser?

It definitely would, but things are different, especially when you manage a multilingual website which is accessed by people whose Internet connections, browsers and screen resolutions drastically change from one continent to another. So if you don’t have enough resources to tweak your WordPress template so that it looks nice with Internet Explorer 6 too, here’s a way to deal with the IE6 visitors.
Shockingly Big IE6 Warning is a WordPress plugin which displays Warning messages when the site is accessed by IE6 or lower and invites them to upgrade their browsers. If “Warning message” seems a bit excessive (Is IE6 dangerous indeed? ;-) ), you can customise the message content: title, text area and web browser download pages.
The plugin works great, and I’d love to see a multilingual version someday (so that the Chinese message is displayed for visitors in China, the Portuguese message in Portugal and Brazil, …).

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