Aussie Online Retailer Impose IE7 Tax 365
First time accepted submitter Techy77 writes "Online retailer Kogan will impose a new tax on its customers that visit its website using Microsoft's outdated Internet Explorer 7 web browser, which means they will spend 6.8 percent more than customers on browsers like Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome. From the article: 'Kogan said his company was able to keep prices low by using technology to make its business efficient and streamlined. however its web team was having to spend a lot of time making its new website look normal on IE7.
"It’s not only costing us a huge amount, it’s affecting any business with an online presence, and costing the Internet economy millions,” Mr Kogan said.
“As Internet citizens, we all have a responsibility to make the Internet a better place. By taking these measures, we are doing our bit.”'"
Tax should be used to fund time travel research (Score:5, Funny)
Then we can can go back and eradicate the outhouse developers who wrote code that doesn't run on browsers other than IE7 in business environments and for which there is no budget to develop new costly solutions.
IE6 (Score:2, Funny)
...gets you shot.
Re:Erm... (Score:0, Funny)
You must be a blast at parties
Suckers! (Score:5, Funny)
I'm on IE6 and don't have to pay the tax lol.
Re:Try all the browsers (Score:4, Funny)
Perfect. Additional hits means additional ad dollars.
Re:Erm... (Score:3, Funny)
But come on, don't mod like an AC.
AC gets mod points now? That could explain a few things.
Anyhow, not being the GP, I can't presume to speak from him, but from what I can tell, the new IE is far from lightweight as his parent post says. The binary is small, because all the code has been made part of the OS itself. It gobbles up a couple of hundred megabytes preloaded with the OS before you start it. To see the real difference, install a fresh OS, reboot three times to get the startup program paging files created, start the browser and check the system's memory usage.
Then upgrade IE, and repeat.
Then upgrade IE again, and repeat.
Faster - for some things, certainly. The best thing since sliced bread? Hardly. Too many incompatibilities and peculiarities, especially in CSS handling and scaling.
they think it's lightweight because the controls bar in the application takes less space..
anyhow.. if it supported webgl, then it would be up to par. as it doesn't, we're once again held back by the awesome ie that has catched up to where browsers were 4 years ago. "yay!"
Re:Erm... (Score:4, Funny)
the mental disabilities that steer one to using particular browsers are not chosen.