I’ve installed Explorer Destroyer, a stupid name for a good piece of javascript that detects if someone is reading your website using IE. If it detects IE it places a banner on the site reccommending Firefox. It looks a little like this:

I’m so sick of IE not playing nice with web standards, it makes everything so much harder. Do you think the banners thing is too much though? The majority of readers here use IE, so I know eventually I’m going to have to move to an IE friendly theme, even when IE7 comes out of beta the majority will still be on IE6.

Damn Microsoft for not being remotly standard. Anyway, the banner will appear on this site for a bit until I figure out what to do.

I finally figured out what to do, I asked a friend. He did some really twisted CSS coding, making left right and right left. Actually, what I think he did is confuse the browser to such an extent that it decided it would just work rather than try and decode the CSS.

IE6 is so terrified that’s it is working perfectly. Which is a first. I should of thought of this, it’s like the plants in Good Omens.

Thanks goes out to Bjorn.

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