Explorer Destroyer

slayer99 writes "I came across Explorer Destroyer yesterday, which is a project that aims to increase the market share of Firefox in a slightly more proactive way than is usual. They provide some code which you add to your front page which presents a banner to IE users urging them to switch to using Firefox. As a bonus, you can potentially make some money via Google's Firefox referral program."

Comments

That's retarded

[Anonymous Coward]

Why bother with scripts and such? All you need is IE's own conditional html comments.

WaSP Browser Update Campaign

[tepples]

The Web Standards Project (WaSP) ran a similar Browser Update Campaign a few years back.

Oh, lovely, it's spyware

[Anonymous Coward]

function hasIE_phoneHome(image) {
  if (document.getElementById)
    {
      var img = document.getElementById(image);
    }
  else if (document.all)
    {
      var img = document.all[image];
    }
  else if (document.layers)
    {
      var img = document.layers[image];
    }
  img.setAttribute('src','http://getunder50.com/ping .php?host='+location.host);

}

Re:Oh, lovely, it's spyware

[orkysoft]

They're just collecting site - browser id pairs for statistics, because they want to know which of the participating sites have under 50% IE visitors.

Your Mission: Get Under 50

[tepples]

this project's goal is not to get people using any better browser but Firefox.

O rly? "Your Mission: Get Under 50" in the article describes a stats page that tracks sites that have fewer than 50% page views from Microsoft Internet Explorer. The end is less IE; the means is more Firefox. If the goal were to advocate Firefox to replace Opera or Safari or Konqueror, the mission would be "Get Over 50".

Browse Happy

[rathehun]

Why create an annoying additional campaign. Use an existing one:

http://browsehappy.com/

R.

Re:Is this easy

[Anonymous Coward]

No, <!-- is the beginning of an HTML comment, and --> is the end of one.  IE sees the comment, then sees the conditional code and knows to include it (if it matches the right version).  Other browsers simply see it as an HTML comment and don't show it.