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Anti IE6 Campaigns
This is all about the campaign to rid the WWW of ie6 that has devastated web developers and held back the evolution of everything that blocks the tubes for far too long. This can not go on any longer! Off with its head!
To raise awareness please send in tips to your major news sites about this campaign and use these tools to spread the word.
Why?
Press Release
Resources
Useful information of all sorts
Tools
HTML Code
- Single line of HTML code to use on any website - English Version (alternate look, mimics MSIE's “Alert” bar)
- Generic Information bar (Activebar) mimicing the look and feel of the original IE6 Information bar exactly. (Can easily be used on any website to encourage your users to change their browser in an unobstrucive way.)
- HTML code to use on any website - Norwegian version (The original code)
- HTML code to use on any website - English version (Also includes links to Opera, Firefox and Safari)
- HTML code to use on any site - English version updated for IE8.
- Just HTML code - Displays larger fonts for links for browsers according to their standard support (Acid 3) and their JavaScript execution speed.
- HTML code to use on any website - German / Swiss / Austrian version (Includes links to Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer 8)
- HTML code to use on any website - German version (Also includes links to Opera, Firefox and Safari)
- HTML code to use on any website - Swedish version (Also includes links to Opera, Firefox and Safari)
- HTML code to use on any website - Dutch version (Also includes links to Opera, Firefox and Safari)
- Alternate code based on the one above More formal language & adds link to video explanation on how to update
- Dutch iframe to be used on any website (Also includes links to Opera, Firefox and Safari)
- HTML code to use on any website - Spanish version (Also includes links to Opera, Firefox and Chrome)
- HTML code to use on any website - Finnish version (Also includes links to Opera, Firefox, Safari and Crome)
- HTML code to use on any website - French version (Also includes links to Opera, Firefox and Chrome)
- HTML code to use on any website - Italian version (Also includes links to Opera, Firefox and Safari)
- HTML code to use on any website - Italian Alternative version (Also includes links to Opera, Firefox and Safari)
- HTML code to use on any website - Lithuanian version (Also includes links to Firefox, Opera and Safari)
- HTML code to use on any website - Occitan version (Also includes links to Opera, Firefox and Chrome)
- HTML code to use on any website - Persian/farsi version. (Also includes links to Firefox, Opera and Safari)
- HTML code to use on any website - Serbian version (Also includes links to Firefox, Flock, Opera, Chrome and Safari)
- English error message page Alerts users of MSIE6 to the dangers of not upgrading, looks like an official Microsoft error message.
Javascript Code
- Multi-lingual Javascript - direct linking allowed Includes links to IE7, IE8, Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari (IE only on WinXP/2003)
Plugins/modules for blogs
PHP Code
Similar campaigns
- Save the Developers. No longer active. Described here.
- drop-ie6.dk - Danish site inspired by the Norwegian campaign
- Stop Living in the Past - Inspired by the Norwegian campaign
- IEUpdate.nl - Supporting (Dutch) users in upgrading their browsers
- Bring Down IE6 - A campaign by .NET magazine
- IEsucks Introduction to IE the dumb browser
- Upgrade IE6 - In Hebrew
Statistics
- yr.no: Daily browser statistics (January 1 to March 11, 2009). Monthly browser statistics (March 2008 to March 2009).
Spread the word
Information
Sites
Articles
Articles in MSM/Big Media and the like.
Norwegian
- Tu.no - Internett trenger din hjelp - The first article in this campaign to rid the world of ?
- - Alle vil bli kvitt Internet Explorer 6 - kommentar om fremdriften og neste trinn (IT-sjefene)
- Microsoft st酶tter IE6-kampanjen - “Vi h氓per at s氓 mange som mulig oppgraderer”
English
German
Danish
Swedish
Dutch
- And loads of other articles on Dutch news websites.
Finnish
French
Hungarian
Spanish
Portuguese
Indonesian
Norwegian
- MS st酶tter IE6-saken - Litt om hvorfor MS gj酶r det, samt hele pressemeldingen som kom etterp氓.
- IE6-saken p氓 forsiden til Wired - Dette er det internasjonale gjennombruddet for kampanjen
English
- Espen Antonsen: Twitter initiated campaign to kill IE6
- Screenshots of sites: Peter Haza - Current Web sites in Norway warning against Internet Explorer 6
- Ajaxian.org: Ben Galbraith - The Campaign To End IE6
- Christer鈥檚 blog o鈥?fun: The biggest sites in Norway urge users with IE6 to upgrade (or switch)
- Christer鈥檚 blog o鈥?fun: Some numbers on the IE6 upgrade box on www.vg.no and www.nettby.no
- Glenn Thomas Hvidsten's blog: Norwegian companies band together to ban IE6
- Ra Ajax - Norwegian Campaign Against IE6
- Trygve Lie: Bye Bye to IE6 in Norway
- Seags - Declaring war on IE 6
- Anton Jenkins @ Pixellated Visions: Join the war on IE6
- Christopher Blizzard: And of of life date for IE6
- CodeClimber.NET: Joining "IE6: Do NOT want!" campaign
- Scott Hanselman's blog: IE6 Warning - Stop Living In The Past - Get off of IE6
- IAllenkelhet.no - A better download page for Internet Explorer
- Westhoffswelt - Let IE6 die - Use Activebar2 to encourage your users
Swedish
- Stephanie Smitt Lindberg (MS Employee): Stephanies Windowsblogg - Dags f枚r v氓rst盲dning 鈥?ut med IE6
German
Spanish
French
Dutch
Russian
Serbian
Italian
Other languages
Microblogging
Follow the hash tags #ie6 (mainly), #killie6, and #betterweb on microblogs
- Original Twitter-post, by @Nerdegutt, in Norwegian, that triggered it all
- Smashing Magazine, linking to a blog post about the campaign.
