Blocking anyone with IE

[Jesse]

Is there anyway to block anyone with IE from coming to your site and telling them to get a real browser? I'm so fucking tired of this Internet Explorer bullshit. Sometimes it works for bulklinks.net and other times nothing will load.

 

[Juo]

http://www.devin.com/ieblock_howto.shtml I've used

<?php
   if (eregi("MSIE",getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT")) ||
       eregi("Internet Explorer",getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT"))) {
	Header("Location: http://www.domain.com/ie_reject.html");
	exit;
   }
?>

And obviously you'll want to make an ie_reject page perhaps with links to Firefox, Chrome etc.

It does seem a bit insane to block IE 100%, yes I fully understand its shortcomings but 20% of my user-base (according to awstats) are using it.

 

[Jesse]

I'm thinking about it. My whole side bar just quit loading in IE as well as most of the index

 

[Jesse]

makes no sense. If I take out the addthis.com code my side navbar will not load. If I leave it in my main tables on the main page will not load but the side bar will....uhhhh. IE is such bullshit

 

[Addicted]

i wouldn't block IE even how shit it is, still (a lot) of users use IE blocking it would just loose you traffic (even if its to a page that says get firefox, people would just leave most of the time), just have a get firefox button on your index...

 

[litewarez]

<!--[if lte IE 7]>
Display nice message asking htem to change for better experience !
<![endif]-->

 

[Jesse]

I got it working. I clicked backspace on a empty line in the body and all the sudden the page worked....fucking Internet Explorer garbage browser. I'm not worried about losing visitors by blocking IE. I'm already using up to 100GB/day bandwidth so cutting back a little bit might be a good thing :D

 

[Addicted]

why cut back? that's just stupid, grow and grow!

 

[Jesse]

i didn't start bulklinks to make it so big i have a hard time maintaining it. I get about 1k/day now and i want to keep it around that

 

[DeLeTeD]

yea just cut off all ie users, if they didn't switch by now they don't deserve to browse the world wide web

 

[Jesse]

Well I finally got IE working with no errors on the page. Its weird how having a space or line break with no code can cause everything to not load. That's garbage. Let this be a lesson everyone. Check your sites in IE to see if they do in fact work

 

[canucrackit]

If you use IE you are a complete moron, but hey, you will be cutting back on traffic. Best to make your site compatible with all browsers tbh.