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troymc on March 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft made their own IE6-countdown site.

You could just change the start of the HTML snippet from <!--[if lt IE 7]> to <!--[if lt IE 8]>

Then IE7 users will also get the banner ("You are using an outdated browser...")

dspillett on March 4, 2011 [–]

Unless IE8 is running in IE7 compatibility mode, something you as a web developer can not always control, in which case you have just confused a user or made it look like you don't understand what you are doing (his site says I should run IE8 and I already do, isn't he thick!).

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