In the wake of the hugely successful IE6 campaign in Norway and Europe I started this site, StopLivingInThePast.com to bring the fight to rid the world of Internet Explorer 6 for good to North America. As part of that process I’ve sent out emails, Tweets and messages to movers and shakers in the blogosphere and [...]
Author Archives: Morten Rand-Hendriksen
The “why”s and “how”s of the anti-IE6 campaign
Steve Balmer voices support for the Norwegian IE6 campaign
In a surprising move Microsoft head honcho Steve Ballmer sent an email to one of the originators of the Norwegian IE6 campaign Teknisk Ukeblad voicing his support for the campaign.
Earlier this week director of Windows Consumer in Microsoft Norway Isabella Alveberg expressed her support for the campaign in an interview with the magazine but Ballmers [...]
WordPress plugin now available
After a bit of work I’ve finalized a WordPress plugin for the Stop Living in the Past script. All you have to do is download the plugin, upload it to your plugins folder and activate it.
The plugin uses a simple JavaScript hook to see if the browser being used is IE6 or older and if [...]
Call for WordPress plugin Developers
To further facilitate the penetration of this campaign I want to build a WordPress plugin that bloggers can just download and activate without having to mess around with their template files. This would be a great addition because it would dramatically lower the threshold for participation. Problem is I don’t have time to do it [...]
How big is the IE6 problem really?
Sites like this one beg a question: How widespread is the use of IE6 really? The answer is hard to come by so rather than providing statistics on a world-wide basis I’ll give you a look behind the curtain of the 12 or so sites I’m running on my server. The sites target a multitude [...]
Credit where credit is due
Although I’ve been toying with the idea of starting the Stop Living in the Past campaign for some time it wasn’t until I saw the huge move by hundreds of Norwegian newspapers and other sites to phase out IE6 (Internet Explorer 6) that I finally decided to put thought into action.
I spent the better [...]
The growing list of Stop IE6 sites
Below is an incomplete and growing list of sites providing info and scripts to phase out Internet Explorer 6:
Stop Living In The Past
IE6: Do NOT Want!
Dear IE6
StopIE6.org
StopIE6.com
If you have come across a site that fits on this list or have one yourself, send me the link and I’ll add it in my links section and [...]
