Comments on: the dark side of IE6Update http://gasper.kozak.si/blog/2009/04/21/the-dark-side-of-ie6update/ a blog of one of those ... software developer geezers Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:04:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Janko http://gasper.kozak.si/blog/2009/04/21/the-dark-side-of-ie6update/comment-page-1/#comment-1017 Janko Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:09:23 +0000 http://kozak.si/widethoughts/?p=276#comment-1017 Yep, I fully agree with you. IE6 is bad but this is not the right way. Yep, I fully agree with you. IE6 is bad but this is not the right way.

]]> By: Matt Hill http://gasper.kozak.si/blog/2009/04/21/the-dark-side-of-ie6update/comment-page-1/#comment-1016 Matt Hill Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:25:37 +0000 http://kozak.si/widethoughts/?p=276#comment-1016 I wholeheartedly agree and we need more articles like this to educate developers that hijacking the IE information bar is just not a good practice to get into. Any site that uses this technique is treading on very dangerous ground and really should be discouraged. There's been an interesting discussion about this on the comments for a blog post I wrote the other, you might like to check it out: http://www.friskdesign.com/2009/04/21/why-ie6update-is-wrong/ I wholeheartedly agree and we need more articles like this to educate developers that hijacking the IE information bar is just not a good practice to get into. Any site that uses this technique is treading on very dangerous ground and really should be discouraged.

There’s been an interesting discussion about this on the comments for a blog post I wrote the other, you might like to check it out:

http://www.friskdesign.com/2009/04/21/why-ie6update-is-wrong/

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