Opera's awesome out of the box-I use Firefox for the addons and similar, but I know a lot of web pros who use Opera for their personal browsing-it was them that first did stuff like tabs and similar. Plus they do bespoke browsers for various things, proper functioning browsers on mobile phones running on J2ME platforms years ago, for example.
#1: Because turning away 3% of their customers outright seemed like a bad idea. #2: Because they'd already DONE all the IE7 work, and it was on review that they realised IE7 took as much time as everything else combined.
Telling people you're charging them more is just going to drive them away. Since you're already detecting the browser just transparently increase all the prices by 3%.
It pisses me off when websites will let me get about halfway through whatever form/purchase I am filling out, and errors out, telling me I HAVE to use IE. WTF.
ugh. yes. Especially government sites.... oh I am sorry, are you making it a requirement that I use a particular commercial product? *kicking* "Oh you can ring up instead...." UGH.
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Date: 2012-06-15 03:19 pm (UTC)#2: Because they'd already DONE all the IE7 work, and it was on review that they realised IE7 took as much time as everything else combined.
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Date: 2012-06-15 05:26 pm (UTC)Linking Safari instead is practically criminal negligence.
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Date: 2012-06-15 05:56 pm (UTC)But you're right, it can't run 9, and 8 is better-but-not-good.
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