{"id":28274,"date":"2012-06-14T06:40:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T12:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/14\/the-ie-tax.html"},"modified":"2012-06-14T06:40:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T12:40:56","slug":"the-ie-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/14\/the-ie-tax.html","title":{"rendered":"The IE Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"

An amusing way of paying for the added cost of supporting a cranky and out-of-date web browser. \u00a0Though 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.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +George Wiman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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!_\u00a0
http:\/\/www.lifehacker.com.au\/2012\/06\/kogan-imposing-tax-on-shoppers-who-use-ie7\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKogan Imposing Tax On Shoppers Who Use IE7<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOnline 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…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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An amusing way of paying for the added cost of supporting a cranky and out-of-date web browser. \u00a0Though 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 … Continue reading “The IE Tax”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8917,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/23\/somewhat_relate.html","url_meta":{"origin":28274,"position":0},"title":"Somewhat related events","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 23-Mar-06 10:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"Firefox 2.0 alpha 1 is available. 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