To further facilitate the penetration of this campaign I want to build a WordPress plugin that bloggers can just download and activate without having to mess around with their template files. This would be a great addition because it would dramatically lower the threshold for participation. Problem is I don’t have time to do it myself.
Originally I was just planning on making a simple plugin that once activated would add the Stop Living in the Past code to the top of the page. But as I started getting tons of emails, comments and tweets about it I realized it would probably be a better idea to make a more comprehensive plugin that provides the user with options on both where she wants the warning box to appear and maybe even what it should look like.
So now I am turning it over to the WordPress community: Does anyone want to take on the challenge of building a Stop Living in the Past WordPress plugin (or one for any of the numerous other blogging and CMS platforms out there for that matter)? All I can offer in return is linkage from this and my other site Design Is Philosophy, kudos, karma and of course credits in the plugin itself and on the site. And of course you will be playing a big part in ridding the world of IE6 forever which is no small feat in itself.
If this sounds like something you want to be a part of, take a look at my specs and wish list and get in touch with me.
Specs
- The plugin must run in IE6 (ironic seeing as this campaign is all about not having to custom build things for that browser)
- The pure CSS/XHTML script must be included as an option
- The plugin must be self contained (no CSS, HTML or JS files hosted elsewhere)
- Links must point either directly to the Microsoft IE site or back to StopLivingInThePast.com
- The plugin must have an admin panel where the user can choose where to place the warning box: Top of the page, top of posts/pages or in the sidebar as a widget.
Wish List
- Admin panel offers additional options like a choice between the CSS script or a fancy JS pop-up or something along those lines
- Admin panel offers the ability to change the colour scheme of the warning box to fit the site in question
Sound like something you want to take on?
If so, please contact me immediately so we can get started!
There are already a number of such plugins available:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/save-the-developers/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ie-warning/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/upgrade-ie/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shockingly-big-ie6-warning/screenshots/
true, but they all do different things (and the Save The Developers one doesn’t work at all any more because the site is dead). The plugin I have in mind is quite different from the others in that it provides options to incorporate the warning into the regular content of the site rather than splashing it either across the top of the page or as a blocking page. Additionally it has to be straight up HTML and CSS without any fancy and intrusive JS or buggy code so it doesn’t interfere with the overall functionality of the site.