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[davidkozat]

So What do you guys think of this?

An Australian consumer electronics e-retailer, Kogan.com, has some strong ideas about socially acceptable web browser use. So strong, in fact, that customers who use Internet Explorer 7 to navigate the page are charged a tax of 6.8% of their total order—that's 0.1% for each month since the browser was first released—because the think it sucks and they're sick of your outmoded web use.

The e-commerce site suggests that anyone using IE7 has likely "been in a coma for over 5 years," and recommends that its customers switch to a "better browser" in order to avoid the so-called IE7 Tax:

Visitors to the site who use IE7 will see a pop-up message suggesting that they install a "better browser", with links to Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera (though not to IE9). In a blog post announcing the change, founder Ruslan Kogan says that the cost of making the site render properly on IE7 isn't worth the hassle.

People's stubborn web-browsing habits—and there are many—can be pretty irritating, when you, enlightened computer geek that you are, know that they are resisting change to something so much better. But actually levying a significant tax is some serious browser-shaming.



So my initial question on this Forum would be:

Do you agree with the E-Commerce decision?

Do you think other should follow their example?

Or is this wrong, and a way of taxing you for ignorance?



I personally I agree with the decision of the E-Com but that's just me...



Source:

http://gizmodo.com/5918599/australia...d?tag=shopping