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Re: IE7 users, we need to talk…

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Post by gburnett »

valarauca1 wrote: post #38
taspeotis wrote: post #10

> We are offering to buy a new computer with a modern browser for any of our customers who are stuck with IE7 Great PR, since practically no-one is going to take them up on the offer. If you're on IE7 you're probably on it because MegaCorp's Intranet Application '02 Enterprise Edition doesn't work on anything else. Meaning the new computer will break their LOB application. It's also possible it won't cost them any mo…

The other option is they are elderly or just don't care. They have that E-Machines Pentium 3 future proof 256MB of RAM Windows98 computer and they'll use it until they die, because shouldn't everything that costs over $1,000 dollars last for 20-30 years?

In the case of elderly users I don't think that many of them could even identify the browser that they use without prompting from others.

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Post by s_kilk »

fredsted wrote: post #90
barake wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try teaching the HR officer who is afraid of the maximize button to use a VM. Even Windows 7 XP mode is scary - the chrome is different.

That's like a carpenter saying he's afraid to pick up a hammer. How can you be an employee and at the same time be afraid of doing your job?

It might be hard to believe, but there are plenty of people in the world whos job has nothing to do with being tech-savvy.

In this specific case the persons job is to manage HR process, not to keep their IT infrastructure up to date. The computer and browser are just tools.

Re: IE7 users, we need to talk…

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Post by ta_tatata »

This is a viral marketing scheme to get some free advertising.

Seeing this kind of viral marketing advertising on hacker news frontpage is sad, this one is not even clever, it's mostly throwing a pile of money towards microsoft.

Re: IE7 users, we need to talk…

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Post by ta_tatata »

ocfx wrote: post #76

How is buying potentially thousands of computers for people cheaper than gracefully degrading features from a bootstrap site?

You got it all wrong, it supposed to be "how offering to buy computers for 1% of our customers is cheaper and more advertising than actually buying an ads campaign ?"

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Post by davedx »

pilif wrote: post #71

> IE7 users make up 1.22% of our traffic right now, and this will decline as more computers are upgraded and can use modern browsers. No computer exists that is able to run IE7 but not IE8. And because IE7 came out way past the "optimized for IE" age, I doubt there is software around that requires 7 and doesn't work with 8. This is in contrast to 6 which is what IE was stuck in for years, so software began depending…

I am pretty sure that these IE7 users (users of NursingJobs.us) are probably browsing from a hospital, where I know for a fact IT policies can be just as bad, if not worse, than at large corporations. I don't think the users have a choice here (besides using a different computer at the hospital or surfing from home).

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Post by Erwin »

pilif wrote: post #71

> IE7 users make up 1.22% of our traffic right now, and this will decline as more computers are upgraded and can use modern browsers. No computer exists that is able to run IE7 but not IE8. And because IE7 came out way past the "optimized for IE" age, I doubt there is software around that requires 7 and doesn't work with 8. This is in contrast to 6 which is what IE was stuck in for years, so software began depending…

Note that the compat mode may mean that you are miscounting IE8 users in IE7 compat mode as IE7 if you are doing a naive user-agent detection (I only mention it because I did and started blocking IE8 users!)

Both will emit "MSIE 7.0" in the user-agent, but IE8 will have Trident/4 while IE7 lacks any such token. MSIE 11 does away with "MSIE" in the user-agent altogether.

There's a X-UA-Compatible header (and meta variable) you can emit to ask for no compat checks.

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