Pushup: Pushing Up The Web

Today I came across an interesting web site with the goal of keeping people notified when their web browsers are out dated. It’s called Pushup.

It’s a simple project and it’s something that you install on your website so you yourself can make a difference online.

In short, Pushup is a simple javascript file (images and css included) that detects the browser bring used when you visit a web site using it. After detecting the browser and browser version it does one of two things:

1. If the browser is outdated: It will display a simple and elegant message notifying the user that there is an update available to the browser they are using and even include a link to the download page.
2. If the browser is not outdated: It will stop the script and the visitor will see nothing.

You can download a compressed file containing the javascript, images and css from the Pushup homepage. After that it’s as easy as adding these lines to the header of your web site:

<link rel=’stylesheet’ type=’text/css’ href=’css/pushup.css’ />
<script type=’text/javascript’ src=’js/pushup.js’></script>

Depending on your directory names you may need to slightly adjust those paths. Other than that it works immediately (clear your header cache if you’re serving cached files if you want to see it immediately).

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