MZMcBride wrote:
Right... well, again, just like the OP, you're focusing on how you feel the world should be while completely ignoring reality. It's not a matter of catering to obstinate IT folks. It's a matter of being pragmatic about the current landscape and its limitations.
This touches, I think, on both the fundamental issue, and the reason we can (and likely will) debate this forever, without ever finding a right or even a consensus answer. Do we want to educate/force people to use the "right" browser, or do we want to support them, regardless of what they're using?
There are lots of reasons to want to educate/force a change: security, implementational convenience, standards compliance, modernity, etc. And there are just as many reasons to oppose the imposition: personal preference, obstinate IT department, obsolete computer, cascading incompatibilities. Some of these reasons (on both sides) are super important, while others are more subjective -- but not everyone will even agree on which are which.