Web Browsers to be 'taxed'!

Bob_the_Saver

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australian-company-introduces-worlds-first-tax-on-microsoft-internet-explorer-7-browser-7851497.html

phoneguy

Actually, that's not a bad idea. Charging users of IE a fee because it costs more money to develop web code and applications for a browser that does not follow RFC's & standards.

I don't think it's fair to target just IE7. I'd extend that to all versions of IE :-)

aerostar

The fix is just shop elsewhere.

phoneguy

I love this:

'It appears you or your system administrator has been in a coma for over 5 years and you are still using IE7. To help make the Internet a better place, you will be charged a 6.8% tax on your purchase from Kogan.com. This is necessary due to the amount of time required to make web pages appear correctly in IE7.'

[Deleted User]

Makes sense. I once had a job designing/developing an application for use in a medical university department. Many doctors are IT-backwards and had very old browsers (worse still IE on the mac...). We had to produce a cutting edge analysis system that would work on very old browsers. Very tough (but we did it)

I'd prefer to see sites refuse access to older browsers than tax them.

floopnoodle

Good, coding a website for ie6/7 is a pain.

In reality it's just a PR/Linkbait activity.

LincolnshireYokel

Easy enough to stop them getting browser and referrer information............

[Deleted User]

Nice PR stunt