Best way to tell a user why my web app doesn't support Internet Explorer [closed]?

Millions of employees of large corporations have no control over the browser on their machine. The companies don't allow them to change browsers (no admin rights on their machines). If you anticipate that any of your users may attempt to use your website while they are at work, you will surely antagonize them (and reveal your ignorance) by telling them to change to a different browser.

There is no "nice text" that you can use that will change their situation.

Off topic. But yeah it's the strongest argument to make my devs support IE. But the idealistic part of me won't let that happen ^^ – URL1 Mar 1 at 15:47.

Tell them "The developer of this site is a very tenacious guy. Though a lot of people told him that he will exclude about 50% of his possible audience, he still refuses to support Internet Explorer since he is convinced that this thing sucks and likes to participate in this holy war. " At least, that statement will be honest.By the way, I recommend reading Joel's article Martian Headsets, perhaps this will give you a different view on your topic.

1 +1 for the Martian Headsets link. Very good read. – Robert Harvey?

Mar 1 at 16:13.

According to StatCounter IE still commands around 45% of market share. No matter whether it sucks or whatever, would you like to shoo away half of your customers. Based on your website and demographic, it could be that IE is used by more than half of your user base.

You got to support them!

It's more like 43%. You're probably not counting all versions of IE. See here: en.wikipedia.Org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers – Robert Harvey?

Mar 1 at 15:35 1 The statistics you reported are about w3schools users, so a particular (and small) part of all users of the web (technically more prepared) – bluish Mar 1 at 15:37 @Robert - Cross checked myself and updated my answer. – Pradeep Mar 1 at 15:37 I'm not sure the statistics reported there can be regarded as representative of all browser use. On the bottom of the page it says "The statistics above are extracted from W3Schools' log-files, but we are also monitoring other sources around the Internet to assure the quality of these figures.

" You are going to get more tech-savvy users going to the W3Schools web site than your average user and technical users will tend to favour a non-IE browser. – Tony Mar 1 at 15:40 Right from the page you linked to - "W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user.

The average user tends to the browser that comes preinstalled with their computer, and do not seek out other browser aternatives. These facts indicate that the browser figures above are not 100% realistic. Other web sites have statistics showing that Internet Explorer is a more popular browser.

" – JasCav Mar 1 at 15:43.

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