Cel Update your Browser Nagger (unobtrusive)

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Oh, all that discussions on vbulletin.com and elsewhere whether vB4 should support IE6 or not... now, while I think it should, because still a significant part of the userbase uses it, there's nothing against giving those users a friendly little hint.


What does this mod do?

Its quite simple, really - it just adds the code to show a small friendly notification bar at the top of the browsing area (like most browsers use). It will remind the user that he's using a rather old browser and should upgrade. To do tnis, it inserts code provided by

http://browserupdate.org

which gets added to the footer template right before the closing </body> tag.


Which browsers are nagged?

At the moment, the popup shows for the users of Internet Expolorer <= 6, Firefox <= 2.0, Opera <= 10.01, Safari <= 2.0. If you want to change this, please read under customization.


Language?

The bar detects the browser default language; if there's a translation, it will be used. If not, it's english, or you can force another language or use your own text. Please see the next topic on customization.


Customization?

Yes, possible - but not supported in any way in this thread. You will find the code that inserts the bar in the plugin "Add Javascript to footer" at hook "global_complete". There are several parameters you can pass to the javascript that triggers the bar. For details on customization options, see this page.

You also can style the bar differently, if you want to. The necessary css-classes are also on the page linked above. I'd advise to put them into additional.css, if needed.

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