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June 14th, 2012 - 09:55 am ET by Hadron | Report spam
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This is great. And as someone who has spent a lot of time pissed off
with MS IE6 and, to a lesser degree, 7 I think its a good idea.

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| http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18440979
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| The Australian online retailer Kogan.com has introduced the world's
| first "tax" on Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) browser.
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| Customers who use IE7 will have to pay an extra surcharge on online
| purchases made through the firm's site.
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| Chief executive Ruslan Kogan told the BBC he wanted to recoup the time
| and costs involved in "rendering the website into a antique browser".
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#1 TomB
June 14th, 2012 - 10:28 am ET | Report spam
On 2012-06-14, the following emerged from the brain of Hadron:

This is great. And as someone who has spent a lot of time pissed off
with MS IE6 and, to a lesser degree, 7 I think its a good idea.



I agree 100%. Web application developers have to spend a lot of times
to make their software work with a broken browser, so it makes
perfect sense to get compensated by the users of that broken browser.

More online retailers should do this.

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| http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18440979
|
| The Australian online retailer Kogan.com has introduced the world's
| first "tax" on Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) browser.
|
| Customers who use IE7 will have to pay an extra surcharge on online
| purchases made through the firm's site.
|
| Chief executive Ruslan Kogan told the BBC he wanted to recoup the time
| and costs involved in "rendering the website into a antique browser".
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