Home of Peter Haza » Internet Explorer Campaign http://blog.peterhaza.no Opinions on most things Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:36:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Does the Norway initiated IE6-campaign work? http://blog.peterhaza.no/does-the-norway-initiated-ie6-campaign-work/ http://blog.peterhaza.no/does-the-norway-initiated-ie6-campaign-work/#comments Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:14:35 +0000 Peter Haza http://blog.peterhaza.no/?p=345 Very many of you have by now noticed the national and international campaign against Internet explorer 6. Several major sites (wired, the register, digg, slashdot) picked up the story, and the word spread at an amazing speed.

The interesting question is, does it have any effect? Pål Nedregotten, Channel Manager at API, which has 50 news papers with IE6 warning under their wings, posted some stats which he keeps updating with numbers for hour by hour and per hostname. The graphs show IE6 usage Friday 13th compared to Friday 20th of February.

From the updates we can see that there actually is a decrease in IE6 usage. (Red numbers are good) At the same time we know that there are winter holidays in Norway this week, and thus we will not know for sure before 1-2 weeks have passed.

It’s also important to remember that the impact of the campaign is not not likely to be visible from day one. As has been mentioned numerous places, the biggest job isn’t to make average Joe update his machine, but getting the big companies’ IT departments to update their machines. We can clearly see this with numbers from Budstikka.no, where I work. On a typical work day we see 23-25% with IE6, while on Saturdays and Sundays we see a drop down to 10% IE6 usage.

Big companies are of course reluctant to upgrade their machines. They have everything working right now, both intranet and internet. They have also applied all possible patches to IE6 to make it more secure, so security isn’t that much of an issue. Why would they want to upgrade?

The hope of this campaign is to make direct and indirect pressure on the IT departments to update their machine parks. By putting this banner out on all possible sites, users and IT departments will be constantly reminded that using an eight-year old browser is unacceptable, especially when you think about how much www has evolved.

Hopefully this will be the push most companies need, and that they will start planning to upgrade. This however requires testing and patching before it can be rolled out. I only hope that before the summer, the IE6 numbers will be so low that we can ignore IE6 completely.

I can also reveal that on budstikka I’ve been given green light for ignoring IE6 in our new design. The reason we can do this is that we will have the old design, which supports IE6, running too, and we can just forward IE6 users there automatically by doing some user agent sniffing.

]]> http://blog.peterhaza.no/does-the-norway-initiated-ie6-campaign-work/feed/ 7 Current international web sites warning against Internet Explorer 6 http://blog.peterhaza.no/current-international-web-sites-warning-against-internet-explorer-6/ http://blog.peterhaza.no/current-international-web-sites-warning-against-internet-explorer-6/#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:07:21 +0000 Peter Haza http://blog.peterhaza.no/current-international-web-sites-warning-against-internet-explorer-6/ As mentioned earlier, there is a national collaboration amongst Norwegian web sites to make people upgrade their IE6 installation to something better; where better is anything from IE7 to Safari.

Being on a Mac, I have no easy way to actually see these warnings. I thought it would be cool to see, so I started asking around for screen shots. The result can be seen here.

Apparently this campaign also spread to Sweden and Australia, so now I’ve created this post to try to keep track of international pages working for the same campaign: To push IE6 percentages so low that you don’t have to take it into consideration when you create web sites anymore.

axbom.se is a Swedish site about web strategies and web trends: Axbom.se

travelfish.org is an Indonesian travel intelligence site Travelfish.org

mappic.org is a site where users can add pictures from places around the globe Mappic.org

travelfusion.com is a search engine related to travel information Travelfusion.com

aftonbloadet.se is one of the biggest news sites in Sweden Aftonbladet.se

travellerspoint.com is a site to share and plan travels Travellerspoint.com

flashmagazine.com is a site striving to give the best information about flash and related productions. Offices in Norway Flashingmagazine.com

whoa.nu is the biggest hip hop site in Sweden Whoa.nu

easyimagesoftware.com is a site for a product site for easy image software easyimagesoftware.com

Willhaben.at is a big online market place is Austria, eqiuvalent of Norwegian finn.no Willhaben.at

tv2.dk is the danish TV2 channel tv2.dk

hogyan.org is an Hungarian how-to site hogyan.org

Anyone missing? Please send me a message on twitter with a screen shot. (Having a hard time doing them myself, as I don’t have access to IE6 on my mac)

]]> http://blog.peterhaza.no/current-international-web-sites-warning-against-internet-explorer-6/feed/ 51 Current Web sites in Norway warning against Internet Explorer 6 http://blog.peterhaza.no/current-web-sites-in-norway-warning-against-internet-explorer-6/ http://blog.peterhaza.no/current-web-sites-in-norway-warning-against-internet-explorer-6/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:57:14 +0000 Peter Haza http://blog.peterhaza.no/?p=187 As mentioned earlier, there is a national collaboration amongst Norwegian web sites to make people upgrade their IE6 installation to something better; where better is anything from IE7 to Safari.

Being on a Mac, I have no easy way to actually see these warnings. I thought it would be cool to see, so I started asking around for screen shots. In this blog post I’ve collected as many images as I can to show how the differnet sites are “edutcating” the Norwegian masses.

For international sites, you can look here.

finn.no is the biggest online buy and sell market in Norway. Their blogpost. They were the first to suggest doing the campaign, on Twitter Finn.no

tu.no were first to publish a post about it Tu.no

gamer.no is the biggest gaming site in Norway, and have a whole 47% of their users on Firefox. Still they want to help out Gamer.no

nettby.no is the biggest norwegian community online. Owned by vg.no Nettby.no

nextgentel.no is one of the bigger ISPs in Norway, they also run broadpark.no which has the same message Nextgentel.no

pwned.no is the biggest online game tournament site in Norway: Pwned.no

rb.no is a local news paper owned by the umbrella corporation A-pressen interaktiv. API has about 50 online papers, all with the same warning Rb.no

sesam.no is a norwegian search engine and portal, who also have their own mapping service. They are a part of finn.no Sesam.no

start.no is an online entertainment arena for youth in Norway Start.no

studentersamfundet.no is the Norwegian student society Studentersamfundet.no

vg.no is the biggest news site in Norway. They don’t like IE6 either Vg.no

db.no is the second biggest news site in Norway. Although late, they are now participating in the campaign. They also have an article Db.no

sol.no is a large news portal forwarding clients to articles on other sites sol.no

dn.no is a big site about business news dn.no

foreldreportalen.no is a parent portal Foreldreportalen.no

lavkarbo.no is a portal for taklking about different diets Lavkarbo.no

nwo.no plans to take over the world and have one global unitarian government. They have a slightly different approach, where they actually thank people for using IE6 as the insecure browser it is, making it easier for nwo to accomplish their goal Nwo.no

gulesider.no Yellow pages Gulesider.no

telefonkatelogen.no online phone book. Owned by gulesider.no Telefonkatalogen.no

keyteq.no does online marketing Keyteq.no

mac1.no is a mac portal Mac1.no

linux1.no is a linux portal Linux1.no

ipod1.no is an ipod portal Ipod1.no

kreativ1.no is a portal for creative work and people. They also have an article about the IE6 campaign Kreativ1.no

aftenposten.no is the third biggest news site in Norway Aftenposten.no

morgenbladet.no is a news paper with emphasis on culture, art, literature and politics Morgenbladet.no

sysedata.no is one of Norway’s biggest hosting providers and ISP Sysedata.no

]]> http://blog.peterhaza.no/current-web-sites-in-norway-warning-against-internet-explorer-6/feed/ 83 National collaboration to push out Internet Explorer 6 http://blog.peterhaza.no/national-collaboration-to-push-out-internet-explorer-6/ http://blog.peterhaza.no/national-collaboration-to-push-out-internet-explorer-6/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:32:49 +0000 Peter Haza http://blog.peterhaza.no/national-collaboration-to-push-out-internet-explorer-6/ Today is a big day, both from a national and an international point of view. From just a tiny message on the microblogging community twitter, now almost all Norwegian news papers online show a message to their users still using Internet explorer 6, telling them to upgrade to IE7 or another more secure and standards compliant browser.

I think this is a great initiative, and a very special one too. It’s not often you see all the media corporations in Norway agree on something, but this time they did.

I’ve marked Feb. 18th 2009 on my calendar, and I’ll keep checking the statistics to see if we see a significant drop or not.

I’ve also started to track pages who show a IE6-warning:
Norwegian sites here: http://blog.peterhaza.no/current-web-sites-in-norway-warning-against-internet-explorer-6/
International sites: http://blog.peterhaza.no/current-international-web-sites-warning-against-internet-explorer-6/

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