I am going to go ahead a regurgitate what everyone has been saying for years now, that IE6 is just well past its prime and its time to retire it. This has been beaten death time and time again, so I am not going to list all the reasons why we should drop it, I am just going to tell you how to make sure that users with IE6 are properly handled on your site.

Its actually very simple. First you drop in this bit of Javascript.

//Nothing special here... just telling javascript to kick IE users out
var browser=navigator.appName;
if(browser == "Microsoft Internet Explorer"){
window.location = "no_ie.html";
}else{
//you can remove this, I just like to see what browser we ARE seeing
//alert(browser);
}

This should stop IE users, if you are trying to detect some other browser or you are curious what the navigator.appName is returning just un comment the alert above. You can also change the window.location to be any URL you like. In my case I redirect them to a page that thoroughly insults IE6.

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