IE6Update - My Activebar2 in action
As another initiative to let IE6 die was started by a Norwegian company some time ago. I decided to create a rewrite of my Activebar using more modern approaches and libraries like jquery. Activebar2, the name of the rewrite, was mainly intended to mimic the look and feel of the browser information bars known from the Internet Explorer. Its purpose was to show the users that a new version of their current browser is available for download, to motivate them to finally lay IE6 to rest. The guys from IE6Update.com took my Activebar2 and made some minor additions to it, to integrate it into current web projects even more easily.
Furthermore they seem to do quite a bit of marketing for it. One of the guys of the company behind IE6Update.com left a me a blog comment at my original Activebar2 announcement, mentioning that their initiative is getting quite popular. I really appreciate this, because with more and more pages providing some sort of update notices for their users it might be finally possible to get rid of the IE6 once and for all. It will still need time to convince everybody to update. And it will need even more time to have the IE6 replaced in big company networks, but I still have the hope that finally we might live in a IE6 free world. :)
Nick Pettit on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:14:15 +0200
Hey Jakob,
Link to commentThanks so much for blogging about us! We appreciate your support, and we especially appreciate the work you put into creating Activebar2. Without your help, we would have had to start from scratch. :D
We mentioned you in our latest blog entry, which is a follow up to all the attention that IE6 Update has received:
http://almost.done21.com/2009/04/ie6-update-the-barcamp-presentation-that-delighted-and-angered-so-many/
Thanks again!
Nick Pettit
Co-Creator of IE6Update.com