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Revisited: Explorer Destroyer Opinion

A long time has passed since I wrote "Excuse me?! This Sounds Like an M$ Strategy" -- over a year and a half -- and I realize I have a slightly different opinion on the site now than I did then. While I still think it's ridiculous to block IE, I somewhat agree with the site's sentiment, if not its methodology. Going so far as to block Internet Explorer completely is probably a little extreme. The first option, a simple note, is probably better. Even better would be for the site owner to simply work the message into their content. I have done so with a couple of my sites, which detect IE using server-side useragent analysis, and print an extra sentence in the footer if the visitor is using IE. No muss, no fuss, and it's certainly unobtrusive.

I no longer smell conspiracy here; it's just a group of extremists doing much the same thing as those fanatics who block Firefox because it just might possibly have AdBlock installed. The only difference is, I sort of agree with these crazies. Why FireFox [sic] is Blocked is a topic for another post (and note that link is rel="nofollow"); but for now, let me stand with head held high, knowing that I have clarified a hastily written opinion from the dark ages of MSN Spaces. (Hey, that rhymes!)

A long time has passed since I wrote "Excuse me?! This Sounds Like an M$ Strategy" -- over a year and a half -- and I realize I have a slightly different opinion on the site now than I did then. While I still think it's ridiculous to block IE, I somewhat agree with the site's sentiment, if not its methodology. Going so far as to block Internet Explorer completely is probably a little extreme. The first option, a simple note, is probably better. Even better would be for the site owner to simply work the message into their content. I have done so with a couple of my sites, which detect IE using server-side useragent analysis, and print an extra sentence in the footer if the visitor is using IE. No muss, no fuss, and it's certainly unobtrusive. I no longer smell conspiracy here; it's just a group of extremists doing much the same thing as those fanatics who block Firefox because it just might possibly have AdBlock installed. The only difference is, I sort of agree with these crazies. Why FireFox [sic] is Blocked is a topic for another post (and note that link is rel="nofollow"); but for now, let me stand with head held high, knowing that I have clarified a hastily written opinion from the dark ages of MSN Spaces. (Hey, that rhymes!)