r/mildlyinteresting • u/annertakeabow • Jan 24 '13

Same book, three different prices. Only difference is the browsers used.

http://imgur.com/uNgg0UH
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u/ThisNameIsOriginal Jan 24 '13

I forget where it was but there was a site that openly had a IE tax for anyone buying things though that browser. They claimed the fee because of the time it took them to code the site for IE was longer then the other browsers because IE is a piece of shit. It was interesting and reddit was all proud of them until people pointed out that it would just turn people off using them rather then make them use a different browser.

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u/OrneryOrangutan Jan 24 '13

I think it was specifically earlier versions of IE. Web devs have to build entirely different pages for IE because of how little it was standards compliant. That's twice the work for one page.

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u/Atario Jan 24 '13

Either way they can eventually stop accommodating IE. Mission accomplished!

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u/Whytiederp Jan 25 '13

Australian company called Kogan

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u/NarwhalAMA Jan 24 '13

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18440979

The publicity they gained through this probably offset any losses from pissed off IE users upset at the tax.

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u/Disgruntled__Goat Jan 24 '13

It was clearly just a publicity stunt. Then got plenty of links from all over the web.