Prevent javascript include in IE6

I would love to hear your thoughts on this particular problem:

I'm using LinkedIn's button functionality and it comes likes this:

<script src="http://platform.linkedin.com/in.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="IN/MemberProfile" data-id="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/profile" data-format="click" data-text="LinkedIn Profile"></script>

The only problem is that it renders very poorly in IE6, so all I want to do is to hide that button in IE6, I've thought about using the  but that would also prevent it from loading in any other browser than IE, an other option would be to use the jquery: if($.browser.msie && $.browser.version=="6.0"){ } but how do I do that with SRC javascript files?

Any thoughts? Thanks!

Solution

You say you tried this:

<!--[if gte IE 7]>Javascript code here<![endif]-->

As you say, this will prevent non-IE browsers from seeing the script.

But there is a way of specifying conditional comments that will be ignored by other browsers. All you need to do is drop the hyphens that make it a comment, like this:

<![if gte IE 7]>Javascript code here<![endif]>

This will now work in all browsers, except IE prior to IE7.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_comment for more.

(by the way, off topic, and I'm sure you've heard this a million times already, but I would seriously recommend dropping support for IE6 -- there's virtually no-one still using it any more)