#browser tax

As a web designer/developer by trade I love this. IE7 is a pain to support and it does cost more money to make sure everything that we create is supported by IE7 and if it isin't supported how do we change it so that it works. Online retailer Kogan has had enough of this and has added a 6.8% fee to your bill if you are using IE7. you can avoid this charge by simply upgrading to a better browser.  The only thing that I have to say to this is - good for them!

"The way we've been able to keep our prices so low is by using technology to make our business efficient and streamlined," reads a post on the site's blog. "One of the things stopping that is our web team having to spend a lot of time making our new website look normal on IE7. This is an extremely old browser, so from today, anyone buying from the site who uses IE7 will be lumped with a 6.8% surcharge - that's 0.1% for each month IE7 has been on the market.

"It's not only costing us a huge amount," the post continues. "It's affecting any business with an online presence, and costing the internet economy millions."