Daily Tip: Graceless Degradation Makes Your WordPress Site Ugly for Old Browsers
January 9, 2011
Web developers are constantly under pressure to ensure graceful degradation for ancient browsers, such as IE 6, and it is pure torture to provide grandma with perfect compatibility. Graceless Degradation is a new, humorous WordPress plugin that gives visitors still using Internet Explorer 6 the experience that their browser deserves:
- Comic Sans fonts everywhere!
- Emphasis tags (bold, italic, strong, and underline) blink! Even though IE doesn’t support the < blink > tag!
- < hr > tags become animated rainbows!
- Animated mailbox graphics added to “mailto:” links!
All you have to do is install and activate Graceless Degradation and your IE 6 users will immediately be able to enjoy their Comic Sans and animated rainbow gifs.
Because this plugin/widget is provided free of charge, I simply ask you to link back to Pressography.com in a post on your blog, or from one of your sites. It doesn't need to be anything fancy - just a note saying that you're using it, and whether or not you like it. However, there is no requirement that you do this, you're free to use the plugin regardless.
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