On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
2012/6/14 Max Semenik maxsem.wiki@gmail.com:
But in any case, we must not annoy any significant part of our audience.
We are site number 5 in popularity, more or less. We are talking about annoying less than 10% of our audience, and for pretty good reasons: giving them a faster and more secure web, and saving ourselves time, effort, money and mental health.
10% of our audience is still a huge number of people. Hell, so is 5%. We don't know their reasons for using an older browser--maybe Grandpa is still using his Compaq from 2001, maybe you work at a company like other people have alluded to. Maybe someone's just crazy and likes IE6/7.
I think you're horribly exaggerating the effort and mental health expense required to maintain these browsers.
Google, which is the number 1 site in popularity, is annoying over 60% of its audience with a Google Chrome advertisement right at the top of http://www.google.com . Google is giving this to all versions of IE and Firefox.
That's their prerogative--they're trying to sell a product.
I personally think IE6/7 users would be better served by ditching IE entirely--preferably to a WebKit-based browser. Others might suggest Firefox. Others would say to grab the latest IE. There's even some weird kids who might suggest moving to Opera ;-)
We should not implicitly advertising any browsers.
-Chad