In the effort to make the web a better place, the AmberPanther team has officially released the Neonternetics plugin. The current version is designed around WordPress, hence, if you have a WordPress powered site and you want to be a part of the Neonternetic movement this plugin is definitely for you.
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What is the goal?
The goal of the Neonternetics plugin is to demote the use of paleonternetic (old/ancient) browesrs, that do not comply with the latest web standards. The idea behind Neonternetics sprang from the waste of numerous hours trying to develop applications that would satisfy Internet Explorer 6 peculiarities. From our investigations, we concluded that Internet Explorer 6 had a big market share, still in 2009, due to the limited information about other options reaching the not-so internet-savvy users. And just not to be biased against Internet Explorer 6, there are numerous other old browsers surfing the net. Hence, we decided to make the information readily available, thus Neonternetics! Spreading information and sending the old technologies back to the paleonternetic era where they belong, one user at a time.
The Plugin
The Neonternetics plugin detects the visitors browser and version and it compares this with the minimum requirements set by the administrator. If the visitors browser does not meet the requirements a warning message is shown. The warning message can be shown via a modal window, a slider on the top of the page, or by imitating the legendary Blue Screen of Death. The Blue Screen of Death came about as we were trying to figure out something to do for April Fools Day, and what better thing of waking up the memories of the BSOD.
In the event the visitor’s browser does not pass the test, the administrator can set up the Neonternetics plugin, to block access to the site, give a one time pass, or give a several hours or days pass. All these options are controlled from functional back-end.
Demo
See the Neonternetics plugin in action…
…and the, download it and make the web a better place, by informing one user at a time.
I like the idea, but it told me that every browser I use is obsolete… and all my browsers (tested using Chrome, Opera, IE, Firefox and Safari) are running at the latest stable version. This tells me that Neonternetic is broken or that it’s looking at something beyond the browser.
Shawn,
the plugin was running under the test mode, so as you rightfully pointed out, all of your browsers failed the test. This is one of the plugin options, so that administrators will be able to test it before they put it live. The test mode is now disabled here. Thanks for pointing this out. In the next release we will include a message indicating that Neonternetics is running in test mode.