Kogan imposes a tax on IE7 shoppers
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Kogan imposes a tax on IE7 shoppers
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Re: Kogan imposes a tax on IE7 shoppers
#2I like it. Sure, alienating your customers is bad, but in a case where these customers may be costing you money, might as well push them to upgrade.
Re: Kogan imposes a tax on IE7 shoppers
#3This is terrific link bait. They've probably checked their stats and figured the exposure is well worth the few missed sales they might encounter.
Re: Kogan imposes a tax on IE7 shoppers
#4Honestly more sites should do something like this (maybe a little less prohibitive and a bit more informational). I think most users with old browsers are on them because they don't know about the faults of that browser or the alternatives. Making the alternatives so obvious may do some good, and shouldn't be too much of an inconvenience to the user.
Re: Kogan imposes a tax on IE7 shoppers
#5I like it. Sure, alienating your customers is bad, but in a case where these customers may be costing you money, might as well push them to upgrade.
Yeah as much as it could be a pr stunt, there is so much wasted time/money in legacy compatibility development. One contract I had blew out by 2 months (making total dev time 3.5 months) in IE6/7 modifications.
Re: Kogan imposes a tax on IE7 shoppers
#6Is it me, or others also not seeing it? In IE6, the IE7 tax is not applied. Wondering why they would have left IE6.
Re: Kogan imposes a tax on IE7 shoppers
#7I can't help but feel there's a better way to "make the Internet a better place". While it's not ideal customers are using IE7, belittling them and taxing because they might not know better seems a little extreme. The message reads more like developers venting their frustration supporting IE7 rather than trying to make things better.
Re: Kogan imposes a tax on IE7 shoppers
#8Is it me, or others also not seeing it? In IE6, the IE7 tax is not applied. Wondering why they would have left IE6.
My work PC has IE6 and I see it being applied.
Re: Kogan imposes a tax on IE7 shoppers
#9This is terrific link bait. They've probably checked their stats and figured the exposure is well worth the few missed sales they might encounter.
Yeah, it's a way to flatter the rest of your customer base, who now get to feel superior for using a different browser. "Hey everybody, I use Chrome, aren't I wonderful?"
Further suggestions to let us elite middle-class types feel superior to others:
1. Extra 25% surcharge for anyone who shows up at your cafe wearing Crocs
2. Anyone driving up to your hotel in a Pontiac Aztek has to pay a fifty-dollar uglification fee
3. If a fat person shows up at your store, employ a security guard to stand around going "Ha ha! Fatty fat fat fat" until they leave.
Re: Kogan imposes a tax on IE7 shoppers
#10At Lexity we bounced everybody who wasn't using IE8 or better to a page that showed them how to upgrade, and specifically encouraged Chrome Frame for those who were stuck with IE6 or IE7. This was very simple to do; all it took was a few conditional comments:
http://blog.lexity.com/blog/2011/12/27/browser-not-supported...