Pushup Makes the Web Stronger
Every web developer that I know is sick and tired of making compromises and hacks to accommodate Internet Explorer 6 and other browsers that are not standards compliant. While graceful degradation (or progressive enhancement, depending on which philosophy you subscribe to) will continue to be a par for the course for the forseeable future, it would be great if we could fully take advantage of the available technologies and minimize crosss-browser tesing costs in our project budgets.
To this goal, Nick Stakenburg released a script that gently alerts the user that their browser could use an upgrade. Pushup detects the version of the client and briefly flashes a notice with a link to download an update. The entire package is fairly lightweight (only 11kb, zipped) and includes the images, sylesheets and JavaScript files to run. Implementation and customization information is provided on the download site, in addition to ports of the function for dojo and jQuery.
This doesn’t really help users whose IT departments prohibit them from updating, but if it helps those who are unaware that there is a better web experience to be had then it is worthy of praise and support.
