Browse Happy: But don’t sell to the converted

  • One thing I’ve noticed a fair bit around the web is all them firefox buttons. And now WordPress is supporting Browse Happy, we’ll see a whole lot of Browse Happy buttons around. All good.

    But how about not selling to the converted? If the target market is Internet Explorer users, how about only showing the “Get Firefox” or “Browse Happy” buttons to them, since the ones using a non-IE browser have already been converted and are ‘browsing happily’? =)

    And it’s possible – using IE’s proprietary conditional statements, we can make it so only IE users see the message, and those converted can live free. The only thing I’m not sure about is the XHTML validity of the statements, but since they’re technically comments it should ignore it.

    A rudimentary guide to the tags can be found here: https://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/cc2.shtml (it’s not actually javascript, that’s just a google hit).

    Basically, it would be formatted something like:

    <!--if [gte IE 5]
    // put Browse Happy/Get Firefox image or text here
    -->

    Thoughts?

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  • ~ahem~

    https://browsehappy.com/browsers/

    Since Firefox is listed on that page, why would it be suggested to get a *better* browser to Firefox users?

    Some may find this all an elitist thing, but can we at least be logical about the elitism?

    Well, I don’t know. What I said – I’ve no clue what it really displays….

    Thats what I am saying, why does it want FF users to get a quote’Better Browser’endquote ?

    Ah the mysteries of life!

    vkaryl, nothing. Looking at the code podz posted, one sees:

    if (strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'MSIE'))

    This triggers the Browse Happy stuff. Is it an anti-IE thing? Maybe. But I see it more as an anti-browser not updated since 2001 thing.

    I think its all really stupid. Sure if you want to promote your browser fine then that nice, but don’t put it on other peoples. This is subconsciously forcing it upon them.

    [Here i go, i will probably be kicked soon]

    “[Here i go, i will probably be kicked soon]“

    I doubt that.

    [Here i go, i will probably be kicked soon]

    No, but the conversation is fairly pointless.
    It is adding nothing constructive to the forums.
    Closed.

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