I'm a confirmed PC user (not averse to Macs but I haven't used one since 2000) and I never use IE. Or Firefox. This apparently makes me an oppressed minority, but I don't care. :D
Do you mind if I ask who is responsible for this? As you might guess, I have encountered it quite a bit in the past, having used both operating systems and browsers that are unfamiliar to most people.
Just because 30% of people use non-IE for preference, doesn't mean they aren't prepared to fire up IE where necessary. You might as well argue that because people spend upwards of 90% of their time not in a car, out of town shopping centres are giving up 90% of their potential custom. They aren't, they're giving up the proportion which doesn't have a car at all. And they don't care.
There are a lot of people in the world. Like, really a lot. Only a tiny, weeny and frankly negligible proportion of those people have any kind of technical clue at all.
There are still people who write cheques in supermarkets. Same goes for pretty much any other deprecated behaviour. Even things which are wasteful, dangerous or evil.
Websites? No, I don't expect them to be well designed. In fact I'm still pretty happy when the website I need turns out to exist!
I doubt there are that many who still write cheques in supermarkets, because they're phasing out taking them everywhere useful. Boots & Argos stopped ages ago (yes, I know they're not supermarkets). Tesco no longer take them, nor do Sainsbury's and Asda. Waitrose and M&S will probably remain cheque-writing-enclaves for a while (demographics) but will eventually cave too.
Heh, but no. They phased them out because practically no one was using them (2 in 1,000, at best). It cost too much money to process them at the admin office/banking stage, not because it was difficult at the checkouts. Next time you're stuck behind someone writing a cheque for their food shopping a) consider shopping somewhere cheaper *g* and b) marvel at the endangered species you're witnessing...
Even better: "Our website is not compatible with the web-browser you are using".
Yes, but only because you've put in a bit of web-browser detection code. I've downloaded (with IE) the pages that you're generating, and they behave absolutely fine in my browser. Could you stop redirecting me to the incompatible warning page, and just let me take my own risks on your site?
Thank you. Me.
(Yes, I really did get on the phone to some website the OED was using for research, and complain to them. They didn't seem to comprehend that we couldn't run IE on Sun workstations...)
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I'm a confirmed PC user (not averse to Macs but I haven't used one since 2000) and I never use IE. Or Firefox. This apparently makes me an oppressed minority, but I don't care. :D
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As you might guess, I have encountered it quite a bit in the past, having used both operating systems and browsers that are unfamiliar to most people.
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/me used to enjoy that job. :(
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'So what was the particular piece of website design that was worth giving up the revenue of a third of the web-using world?'
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(It was NUS extra.)
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Just because 30% of people use non-IE for preference, doesn't mean they aren't prepared to fire up IE where necessary. You might as well argue that because people spend upwards of 90% of their time not in a car, out of town shopping centres are giving up 90% of their potential custom. They aren't, they're giving up the proportion which doesn't have a car at all. And they don't care.
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There are a lot of people in the world. Like, really a lot. Only a tiny, weeny and frankly negligible proportion of those people have any kind of technical clue at all.
There are still people who write cheques in supermarkets. Same goes for pretty much any other deprecated behaviour. Even things which are wasteful, dangerous or evil.
Websites? No, I don't expect them to be well designed. In fact I'm still pretty happy when the website I need turns out to exist!
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Because otherwise people would carry on using them!
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Yes, but only because you've put in a bit of web-browser detection code. I've downloaded (with IE) the pages that you're generating, and they behave absolutely fine in my browser. Could you stop redirecting me to the incompatible warning page, and just let me take my own risks on your site?
Thank you.
Me.
(Yes, I really did get on the phone to some website the OED was using for research, and complain to them. They didn't seem to comprehend that we couldn't run IE on Sun workstations...)
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