{"id":2659,"date":"2012-06-15T17:37:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T17:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/blog\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2017-09-14T11:41:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T11:41:22","slug":"we-hate-internet-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/we-hate-internet-explorer","title":{"rendered":"We hate Internet Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kogan.com has taken Internet Explorer bashing to a whole new level. This Australian online electronics store is making Internet Explorer 7 users pay an extra 6.8% tax! If that isn’t an impetus to upgrade or shift to a different web browser<\/a>, what is?<\/p>\n

\"6.8%<\/p>\n

Image Source<\/strong>: http:\/\/www.kogan.com\/au\/blog\/new-internet-explorer-7-tax\/<\/a><\/p>\n

On the company blog, Rusland Kogan mentions that the “Internet Explorer 7 tax” will be levied on those who still cling to that archaic and much hated web browser. At check out, IE7 users are shown the warning pop-up and asked to upgrade or switch to a different browser. Based on the screenshots posted by the company, the tax will actually be implemented if they proceed. The pop-up lists the other four popular web browsers<\/a> – Chrome, FireFox, Safari and Opera.<\/p>\n

Why we hate Internet Explorer 7<\/h2>\n

The tax is charged to make the Internet a better place. It is necessary “due to the amount of time required to make web pages appear correctly in IE7.”<\/p>\n

Well said! Claps and cheers all around. So all those who have “been in coma for the past 5 years”, it’s time to wake up and adopt a safer and better web browser. Get rid of the pain in the rear that is Internet Explorer 7.<\/p>\n

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Come to think of it, this “taxation” on IE7 usage is a great marketing gimmick. In addition to the hundreds of comments the blog post has received, I’m sure Kogan.com would have also got tons of inquisitive visitors out of which a few would have turned into actual buyers. I would love to see the sales graph of Kogan.com for this month.<\/p>\n

I suppose other online stores like Neatorama.com or ThinkGeek.com would do well – at least generate a few laughs – if they implement this idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kogan.com has taken Internet Explorer bashing to a whole new level. This Australian online electronics store is making Internet Explorer 7 users pay an extra 6.8% tax! If that isn’t an impetus to upgrade or shift to a different web browser, what is? Image Source: http:\/\/www.kogan.com\/au\/blog\/new-internet-explorer-7-tax\/ On the company blog, Rusland Kogan mentions that the […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jokes","category-web-browsers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webdevelopersnotes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}