Future major features

In the theme layout files - something along the lines of (extracted from Julian's Essential theme):

 if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) {
    $checkuseragent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
}
// Check if IE7 browser and display message
if (strpos($checkuseragent, 'MSIE 7')) {
    do something for IE7 here
}
if (strpos($checkuseragent, 'MSIE 8') || strpos($checkuseragent, 'MSIE 7')) {
    do something for IE 7&8 here
} else {
    do something for every other browser here
} ?>

of course the $checkuseragent can be used for just about anything if you know what strings to look for - other versions of IE, versions of other browsers, mobile browsers etc.

HTH

Richard

Hi Alistair.

I question the practice of blocking old versions of anything. Surely the fact that bugs and errors will progressively break a users experience the more out of date their software becomes is bad enough for the end user without being directly disenfranchised by the page they are trying to view?

By all means inform a user their stuff is old and provide a link on how to fix it but I thought blocking users because of their browser, began dying off sometime in the middle of the last decade because it smacks of elitism and punishes the less technically adept. YMMV.

Cheers, Sam.