June 22, 2009 at 13:06For show-off you have to pay
Recently, a very wide circle of webmasters has been fingerprinting that they say "use a normal browser from among my two favorites."
Today I clicked on the banner in the heading of the habr - and, going to the advertised site, I saw the following inscription:
it looks like you are still using the prehistoric browser
Iconza doesn’t want to show you icons in IE6, try updating it to version 7, or better immediately 8.
And also better - set yourself a normal browser:
Firefox Opera Chrome Safari
Strictly speaking, I have all of the above browsers. But I use Avant on the basis of the sixth IE - I need it that way. And according to the statistics of the sites for which I follow the share of IE6 reaches 20%.
Total - people, instead of cutting the site cross-browser-free, instead of redirecting the explorer pipelines to a simplified site - they call for a change in the browser.
Total - let's take it. As a business owner, I make decisions based on numbers:
How many visitors will change the browser, and how many will leave? Well, if you look at the eye - it will take 99%.
How much is advertising on Habré for this site?
How many people with IE6 will lose Iconza? Suppose, considering that among webmasters the share of IE is less than among ordinary users, the loss will be only 5-10%.
Total - Iconza owners should calculate what is more important for them
Lose 5% of users or pay an extra html encoder for cross-browser compatibility.
The site is certainly good. Again - the owners probably know what they are doing, calculated all of the above and decided that abandoning IE6 is more profitable than completing the site for them. This is normal - when it is money and a balanced decision.
The problem is that a lot of schoolchildren look at this approach and rivet sites, checking cross-browser compatibility only by the validator, and not by the eyes. And the fact that despite the validity of the site is falling apart - they do not touch absolutely. The trouble is that for their youthful maximalism and show-off they often have to pay website owners who are losing money because of this approach imposed by the coder studio.
Make cross-browser sites! - Do not let sites lose customers.
Today I clicked on the banner in the heading of the habr - and, going to the advertised site, I saw the following inscription:
it looks like you are still using the prehistoric browser
Iconza doesn’t want to show you icons in IE6, try updating it to version 7, or better immediately 8.
And also better - set yourself a normal browser:
Firefox Opera Chrome Safari
Strictly speaking, I have all of the above browsers. But I use Avant on the basis of the sixth IE - I need it that way. And according to the statistics of the sites for which I follow the share of IE6 reaches 20%.
Total - people, instead of cutting the site cross-browser-free, instead of redirecting the explorer pipelines to a simplified site - they call for a change in the browser.
Total - let's take it. As a business owner, I make decisions based on numbers:
How many visitors will change the browser, and how many will leave? Well, if you look at the eye - it will take 99%.
How much is advertising on Habré for this site?
How many people with IE6 will lose Iconza? Suppose, considering that among webmasters the share of IE is less than among ordinary users, the loss will be only 5-10%.
Total - Iconza owners should calculate what is more important for them
Lose 5% of users or pay an extra html encoder for cross-browser compatibility.
The site is certainly good. Again - the owners probably know what they are doing, calculated all of the above and decided that abandoning IE6 is more profitable than completing the site for them. This is normal - when it is money and a balanced decision.
The problem is that a lot of schoolchildren look at this approach and rivet sites, checking cross-browser compatibility only by the validator, and not by the eyes. And the fact that despite the validity of the site is falling apart - they do not touch absolutely. The trouble is that for their youthful maximalism and show-off they often have to pay website owners who are losing money because of this approach imposed by the coder studio.
Make cross-browser sites! - Do not let sites lose customers.