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.