Cody Taylor

Eyvind A. Larre writes “A large and rapidly growing campaign to get users to stop using IE6 is being implemented throughout Europe. ‘Leading the charge is Finn.no, an eBay-like site that is apparently the largest site for buying and selling goods in all of Norway (Finn is Norwegian for “Find”). Earlier this week, Finn.no posted a warning on its web page for visitors running IE 6. The banner, seen at right, urges them to ditch IE 6 and upgrade to Internet Explorer 7.’ The campaign is now spreading like fire on Twitter (#IE6), and starting to become an amazing effort by big Media companies to get rid of IE6! The campaign also hit Wired some hours ago”

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