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The point of the article is that you risk breaking future application in this way.

No... 1) You don't understand regular expressions properly. .+?MSIE.+? is the same as just MSIE. 2) Regex is overkill. Just use strpos. However, 3) Browser detection cannot be relied on. See: http://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/ 4) Blocking users like that is bad. The text can be read just fine even though some things may be mispositioned. Just use IE conditional comments to display a message to the user telling them to upgrade to a newer version of IE or pick a better browser. In that way they can still read the content with a broken layout.

Right, I think we've heard enough. If you want free help then stay polite, even if you perceive the person who tries to help you as stupid.

Send them an invitation email with a unique and random invitation id. Have them print out and bring the email. Cross reference the invitation id with your database.

No need to scratch that out. http://www.python.org/about/quotes/ I think it was unintentional. He wrote people, but forgot that is the strike-through bbcode.

I just changed the template directly.

I believe I once watched a video with a Youtube engineer stating they use Python. im pretty sure language popularity decreases value of the developers using it, my opinion is my theory which is based on fuzzy logic, fuzzy logic drives your car breaks, your washing machines, and your life support machine. by noticing my most used sites such as youtube and facebook and some other one are php therfore i have deduced that 2 in 3 most popular apps are php, other people also use these apps, and by glimpsing accross teh net i have seen mostly php so my logic is fuzzy logic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_logic You can't just do that. Take some statistics classes...

Your ISP prohibits setting up a server regardless of the port. Maybe you should just 1) purchase a corporate subscription, 2) buy hosting somewhere else, or 3) find a less restrictive ISP.

Nobody cares about Acid 2 anymore. Nowadays it's your performance on Acid 3 that matters. IE6 passes Acid 1, but that doesn't mean it's a good browser.

Negative margins are no more bizarre than the number 0, negative numbers, floating point numbers, imaginary numbers, and complex numbers. All of those are used widely today. I wonder what margin:(5+9i)px; would look like

How much is your time worth and how long will it take you to complete the project?

That's sort of how the agile methodology works. In agile software development you work on relatively small iterations. Each iteration would theoretically be able to be shipped as a complete product, bar the fact that it might not yet have sufficient functionality to actually be useful yet. There are other things to agile than just that though.

$$$ is the language of the management. Time = $$$, development takes time, thus development => $$$. Besides, the current system works, so why replace it? That's how management will see it many places.

A lot of companies invested a lot of money in developing stuff like intranet websites that only run on IE6. Even then, if they prefer IE6 to IE7 then why would you force them to choose something else? That's like forcing you to eat at Burger King instead of McDonald's just because I think Burger King's burgers are better.

mt_rand, uniqid, or pick a random character from an array of characters until you think your string is long enough.

Why would they want to overwrite it? There are people who don't want that to happen and they would probably get pretty upset.

I'll have to say that I'm against blocking people. Asking people to upgrade is fine by me, but dictating people's choice of browser is wrong, in my opinion.

Someone should write a virus that forces an update from IE6 to IE7.

In my opinion, the rules should be followed by everybody, including your family.

Uh yeah it was supposed to have said "entirely impossible". My bad.

You are able to have IE6 on XP. That's entirely possible on Vista/7. IE7 wasn't out when XP was first released.

Generally, you can create any website using PHP.

<!--[if lte IE 6]> <div class="warning">Better browser or <acronym title="get the f*** off">GTFO</acronym>!</div> <![endif]--> Adjust language as you see fit.

IETester? It's quite buggy...

Just drop IE6. Web developers are shooting themselves in the foot by keep supporting it. IE7 has been out for years and IE8 is in RC. There is no excuse for not having upgraded by now. If you're in a corporate environment and cannot upgrade then you can use something like portable FF.