How to allow access to only IE users?
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How to allow access to only IE users?
May i know how i could allow access to my site to only IE users?
Thanks a lot.
Thanks a lot.
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Awful idea, but get_browser() is about the closest you'll get. It's unreliable, plus I think Opera still identifies as IE.
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It sounds like you need to learn how to write W3C COMPLIANT code instead of using IE only coding. And for your information other browsers can MIMIC IE so they can get into sites that try to block them.amy wrote:Because the scripts that I used and the formatting of my site only works in IE.
I tried using get_browser() but it doesn'twork.
Could someone help? Many thanks.
My advice is to drop the IE only attitude and start designing your site to be compliant with W3C standards so it will work on most browsers.
Is this a script you designed or something you're just using?
If there is a specific issue with getting to work with all browsers, post some code and allow the community to help you get it working.
Telling someone to close their browser and open a new one just to visit your site has always been, and will always been bad design practice. You should avoid doing that at all costs. Even if it means cutting back on features.
Big sites can get away with that for media apps/plugins, like CNN/ABC, because they have an established audience from outside of the web and their content is just that valuable to the people who visit the site. I hate the practice, but it seems to be working for them and some others. Sadly, this is hardly ever the case for a typical site and if it goes beyond requirements for media display and it's about just content display... that's a serious flaw.
If there is a specific issue with getting to work with all browsers, post some code and allow the community to help you get it working.
Telling someone to close their browser and open a new one just to visit your site has always been, and will always been bad design practice. You should avoid doing that at all costs. Even if it means cutting back on features.
Big sites can get away with that for media apps/plugins, like CNN/ABC, because they have an established audience from outside of the web and their content is just that valuable to the people who visit the site. I hate the practice, but it seems to be working for them and some others. Sadly, this is hardly ever the case for a typical site and if it goes beyond requirements for media display and it's about just content display... that's a serious flaw.
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I agree with what everyone else is saying. You do realize you would be keeping most users of other operating systems, Mac OS, linux, unix, and disabled persons who use screen readers from being able to view your website, right?
For me it is easiest to development standards compliant code and then use ugly things like conditional statements (in CSS) and browser detection to try to make the code work in non-standards compliant browsers (IE).
For me it is easiest to development standards compliant code and then use ugly things like conditional statements (in CSS) and browser detection to try to make the code work in non-standards compliant browsers (IE).