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Explorer Destroyer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thats-pretty-funny dept.

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."

3 of 417 comments (clear)

  1. That's retarded by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

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

  2. Oh, lovely, it's spyware by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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);

    }

  3. Re:Is this easy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.