Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Internet Explorer 7 Tax

Internet Explorer was never made for web designing. Thanks to its inclusion in the Windows OS, however, it was popular in terms of usage. Till other strong competitors like Firefox, Chome, Safari and Opera came along. 

If you have yet to sample or jump over to another browser, you might want to think about it now. Kohan, an electronics retailer based in Australia has imposed an extra 6.8% surcharge on any online transactions done using Internet Explorer 7. Why 6.8 you ask? It's 0.1% for each month IE7 has been on the market. 

Basing the charge on the amount of work their web designers need to ensure it is compatible, the easier workaround this is simply to either use a different browser or upgrade to IE 8 and above. 





The official blog post here