An amusing way of paying for the added cost of supporting a cranky and out-of-date web browser. Though it worries me that this idea could be used for evil, too (deciding that you only want to support a single browser and dinging people for using a different one), though that may be self-correcting in the marketplace.
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It's almost impossible to explain to someone who has not tried it, the frustration of having created a web template that works in every browser except IE. And it isn't just IE7 either; IE9 unpredictably kicks over into IE7 rendering mode. _Stop using Internet Explorer, people!_
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/06/kogan-imposing-tax-on-shoppers-who-use-ie7/
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Kogan Imposing Tax On Shoppers Who Use IE7
Online electronics retailer Kogan is no stranger to novel pricing approaches, but this one takes the cake: from now on, anyone who visits the Kogan si…
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I use mostly Firefox, but a retailer telling me what I may and may not use? Not in this life, folks. Fortunately, the retailer is in Australia. I do hope the idea doesn’t catch on.
Oh please. There is absolutely nothing wrong with IE9. I personally opt for Firefox generally, but if that isn't appropriate for some reason, IE9 is my secondary choice and has never caused me a problem. In fact, Lifehacker itself recently touted a study indicating IE9 as having a better consistent performance than its competitors.
I'm seriously sick of this application elitism garbage.
I'm with +Gary Roth. With the exception of features missing, which you should be using progressive enhancement for anyway, there is no extra time afforded to IE anymore (with very rare exceptions). IE6 was one thing…but it is all but dead and beyond reasonable support range. Everything else is shitty developers (who don't actually know HTML, CSS, and javascript, much less their standards) and slackers.