This blog is in no way
"Ground Zero", but the links I am pointing to here will be an attempt of trying to sum up all the
heroes of this campaign and its history. I will also try to sum up "the heroes" in this war against IE6, since I personally think this is the greatest thing that have happened to the internet for a long time ... ;)
It all started when
Erlend Schei posted a twitter message
encouraging everyone in control of large Norwegian websites to have a "spring cleanup" to get rid of IE6.
Then
Anders Brenna posted a "call for arms" to
help save the internet on
Teknisk Ukeblad. Erlend Schei immediately himself after the "call for arms" started implementing his "Upgrade from IE6 banner" at
Finn.no (see it with IE6)
Immediately afterwards several other big websites jumped on board, especially after
Digi.no also wrote a post called
Wants to kill hated web browser. At this time I got aware of the campaign, and several other big websites jumped on board and started having "say no to IE6 banners", including
Aftenposten.no,
VG.no,
Dagbladet.no and so on. Schibsted even upgraded *ALL* their local news paper websites along the *entire country* which includes something like about 200 news websites or something...
Anders Brenna, one the most active activists talking about this phenomen, created a LOT of new articles about this at
Teknisk Ukeblad and now the
Twitter #IE6 tag is among the top 8 tags *ever* at Twitter...
The campaign is now spreading to Germany, Indonesia, Canada, Sweden (
Aftonbladet has picked up the torch and kept it alive in Sweden) and I have told
Kariem that he should put *ALL* his other activities aside to try to make this campaign spread into Egypt and also hopefully Arabia in general. He's now trying to upgrade our MySQL database to handle UNICODE so he can blog in Arabian to make it spread into Egypt and the rest of Arabia... ;)
During last night we even had our own
War against IE6 Wiki. And one here is a probably
far from complete list of websites now joining the say no to IE6 campaign (if you're jumping this campaign, then please submit your website there too ;)
It even exploded so much that Microsoft themselves had to issue a "Press Release" stating that also
Microsoft supports the war against IE6. I have translated that Press Release to English at my blog;
Microsoft supports the war against IE6.
Peter Haza have even published a
screenshot list of Norwegian websites boycotting IE6.
Ajaxian also wrote about the Norwegian campaign for IE6.
So basically the entire thing has completely exploded...!!
The whole campaign has gone truly international which
Nicholas Hagen and
Wired.com has proven, but it still needs more gazoline...!
I just read Anders Brenna's article about "where to move next" which you can find here;
the "secret" behind the IE6 campaign - which I find particulary interesting reading to make the campaign not "die off".
The above article - as most articles here - is in Norwegian, but basically it says
*BE GENEROUS*, and with that he means. BRING OUT THE HEROES in this campaign. This is not a campaign driven by monetary gains for individuals, but we can still reward everyone "hopping on board" by giving links to all the different websites, blogs and such that encourages everyone to join and writes about it.
So if you have a blog, then BLOG about this, and LINK TO A LOT OF OTHERS that are also writing about this. Only by "giving up front" we can win this war for burrying IE6 permanently...! ;)
The future is within grasp of our palms now, but we still need to close our fingers around it ... ;)
PS!
If you're looking for the "best place to stay informed" (which would probably be a "better" Ground Zero then this blog) you should probably start with the
Say no to IE6 wiki.
PS2!
If you're looking for a really great and *neutral* HTML salad to include on your own website(s) to inform users that they need to upgrade, I personally think that
my War against IE6 HTML inclusion happens to be the best out there ... ;)
But then again, I would also like to kill of the *entire* IE stack and not only IE6 ... ;)
.t