Hitting the Nail on the Head in the Browser Wars

[Jason Clinton]

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I'm seeing a nice change of scenery lately as I am working on some nonprofit
organization's web sites. Since money and sales aren't the bottom line, now
would be a good time for me to resume use of the most effective weapon in the
war against Microsoft: information.

What I want is a little floating <div> box to be displayed (unintrusively that
could be hidden) at the lower right side of my page if ECMAScript (JavaScript)
detects that a visitor is visiting the page with a browser with known,
unresolved security issues (read: Internet Explorer).

Here's where the nail really gets hit on the head: I want the browser version
reported back from the ECMA call() to be crossreferenced with the very secific
list of vulnerabilities that "you" have. I think this drives the point accross
that this is a problem that affects the visitor.

As far as the the ECMAScript, DOM and CSS modifications, I can pretty much
handle all that but what I wonder is this: would this be something that everyone
would be interested in implementing on their web site? You could for instance
simply put a server side included in your front page like this:

<!-- #virtual include="http://www.browseralert.org/ecmascript.include" -->

And a little 100x100px box pops up at the lower right of the page notifing the
user that "your browser is evil and here is exactly why you shouldn't be using it"

Jared, I could use a little help from you righting the ECMAScript as I know
nothing about it.  Anyone else think this is a good idea? I thought it would be
pertinent as well to point out that IE doesn't even support HTML 4 or CSS 1
correcly, but I don't think the average user cares (alas...).

Of course, your corporate customers prolly don't want this on their front page,
but community service organizations... I mean, it does serve humanities better
intersets. :)

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