How to inform users that webapplication does not support IE6

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Published on 2010-03-11T08:36:23Z Indexed on 2010/03/19 13:41 UTC
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I have web application and I do not really care about IE6 users. However I would like to have some kind of feautre that would informe users that they are using IE6 and that their browser is not supported. I was thinking about two possible solutions:

pop-out window (probably Javascript) with text informing the user on every page he enters
some special page with information, that user would be redirected to whenever he tries to access my application

Both solutions will be sufficient, however I would prefer the second one. Probably some magic javascript needs to be involved, can anyone could please provide a solution to this?

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