Why can’t we fight Internet Explorer? I can. 3 steps to success.

I am so sick of internet explorer…all versions. It drives me insane in web design/dev and it takes all kinds of cool CSS properties out of play because we have to tailor to the IE wave. I say we start to fight back, today. With the help and inspiration of mrdoob.com-  I will now redirect IE users to a page in which they can download their choice of one of the browsers that DO NOT suck. An example would be this: http://mrdoob.com/projects/ie/

All we have to do is add a simple rule in our HTACCESS, make a nice little page they can select from and help the internet get over the fact that Internet Explorer is a piece of junk and needs to be “taken care of.”

Steps to take:

1.) Create a page similar to this: http://mrdoob.com/projects/ie/ or this:

2.) Open HTACCESS (or if you use ASP/IIS then you probably love Microsoft anyway) and add:

# Fuck IE
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/projects/ie/index.html$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} MSIE [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /projects/ie/index.html [L]

3.) Just replace /projects/ie/index.html with your file. You now help people

You also have the option of using an IE conditional statement for a meta refresh….

Example:

<!--[if ie]><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://userbility.net/yourbroswersucks.htm"><![endif]-->

Just throw that right in the header of your site, send them to a static page and it’s a done deal. IE sucks. Let’s not support it anymore.