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Norway Vs. IE 6 - Our Take
2009-02-20 10:34:07
Long time no blog (and I'm sure you'd rather us be building the site rather than blogging, but this caught my eye). As reported in Wired and elsewhere, a number of Norwegian websites now flash peevish messages at users who visit their sites with Internet Explorer 6.

So what's the Marvel web team's take on this?

IE 6 is, to put it mildly, not a popular browser with the type of people who build web sites (although the rumors that our front-end coders spit on the ground when anyone mentions it are highly exaggerated and I wish people would stop spreading them). In the end though it's not our place to force people to use any particular browser. Our rule about browser support is that we test and support the browsers that visitors to our site use. If a high enough percentage of our users visit us with a given browser, we support it - even if it makes things less convenient for as we build.

So even though our developers might ask IE6 users to upgrade your browser for the love of all that's holy (or switch to another one), it's not our job to do so.

Our job is to make sure as many people as possible who come to our site have the best experience that we can give them.

- peter

P.S. as you probably know, a big chunk of the Marvel staff is on Twitter. You can find me here. I'm happy to answer questions as long as I'm not, you know, working and stuff. I'm also going to try to blog here more frequently - and this time I mean it.
IE Sicks
Heh. I had no idea IE6 was so problematic. I generally avoid upgrading Microsoft products due to bad experiences (cf. Vista, the elimination of a free photo editing tool). Fortunately, I finally switched to Firefox a year ago.

Posted by Lonesome Pinky on 2009-02-23 00:43:45
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