News from Browser-update.org
Its been a long time since the last update here and it may seem like this project is not improving. But we have plenty of updates, changes and achievements to talk about.
Users
First of all we have over 6000 Websites using the browser-update.org script now. This is a impressive number but we need to reach more webmasters! So spread the word about this campaign. The Google-Hack showed that a secure and up-to-date browser is very important, with even Microsoft now advising to abandon IE 6.
Translation
We moved to a new (and hopefully easier) translation system using gettext. You can find more information on our translation page.
Customization
Now you can fully customize the notification using CSS and Javascript. This includes text, language, “open link in new window” and even a Javascript callback function.
New Server
We were moving to a faster server in November, because our old server could not handle the load anymore.
Future
This year we need to decide if we should move Internet Explorer 7 to the default-list of outdated browsers.
03. February 2010 um 14:59
First of all thank you very much for this great piece of code. I use it in almost all of my webpages. But allow me a little remark:
It would be great if the list of browsers would be up to date. Right now it still shows Firefox 3.5 and Chrome 3. Both have been replaced by their successors.
03. February 2010 um 15:51
Thanks for the hint. I fixed it now.
15. February 2010 um 16:42
“Future
This year we need to decide if we should move Internet Explorer 7 to the default-list of outdated browsers.”
you totally should
18. February 2010 um 14:10
Would be great, if it didn’t show my freshly installed Firefox 3.6 as old and outdated.
19. February 2010 um 02:40
Thank you so much for this tool! I love the fact that it stays updated. I got 2 visitors running IE6 on Windows XP today, and I decided it was time to find a good javascript to alert people, especially since IE8 can run on XP. The localization is also great, because my 2 visitors were from France and Peru.
This is exactly what I needed. Thanks.
19. February 2010 um 16:26
@Hekse
This is an error of the website owner. I think he is running the script in test mode.
26. February 2010 um 17:32
Firebug is giving me the error message: “reference to undefined property window.onload”.
Now, it works fine in a simple page on its own, but it does this break when mixed with some other scripts which modify the DOM. (I have a div saying “Please enable javascript”, and then use javascript to hide it.)
Can you suggest a workaround?
TRiG.
01. March 2010 um 18:25
@Timothy
please specify the page where the error occurs, so i can have a look at it.
05. March 2010 um 23:08
Another vote to put IE7 on the upgrade list–especially with IE9 well underway.
05. May 2010 um 18:54
A user said (i accidentily deleted the comment):
I have provided a plugin for vB4:
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=239559
27. May 2010 um 22:29
A friendly FYI: Chrome 5 has been officially released (no longer beta). The /update page still says “Chrome 4″.
http://www.google.com/chrome
Loving the service. Thanks for putting it out there!
28. May 2010 um 09:52
@Adam
Thanks! I fixed it
06. July 2010 um 16:17
I think that as soon as IE9 becomes available IE7 should be marked as outdated.
It’s understandable that not everyone can run *new* software all the time due to business/support reasons, maybe some people just don’t want to be on the bleeding edge and suffer from all the bugs in newly released browsers.
2 versions however should be more than enough time (specially given the duration between IE7 -> IE8 -> IE9) for people to upgrade.
01. September 2010 um 17:20
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