澳大利亞一家購(gòu)物網(wǎng)站最近宣布，凡是通過(guò)IE7瀏覽器在該網(wǎng)站購(gòu)物的用戶(hù)，都需額外支付交易款項(xiàng)6.8%的服務(wù)費(fèi)。該網(wǎng)站首席執(zhí)行官表示，這一想法是在網(wǎng)站改版期間萌生的。他指出，雖然該網(wǎng)站用戶(hù)中大約只有3%使用IE7瀏覽器，但他的技術(shù)團(tuán)隊(duì)還是需要花很大精力調(diào)試網(wǎng)頁(yè)，以使其能在有些過(guò)時(shí)的IE7瀏覽器中正常顯示；而花在IE7瀏覽器測(cè)試上的時(shí)間是Chrome, Safari和火狐三種瀏覽器測(cè)試時(shí)間的總和。這位執(zhí)行官表示，他并不指望有用戶(hù)真的會(huì)額外支付這項(xiàng)服務(wù)費(fèi)，只是希望通過(guò)這個(gè)措施鼓勵(lì)用戶(hù)升級(jí)到更高級(jí)別的瀏覽器。

The Australian online retailer Kogan.com has introduced the world's first "tax" on Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) browser.

The Australian online retailer Kogan.com has introduced the world's first "tax" on Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) browser.

Customers who use IE7 will have to pay an extra surcharge on online purchases made through the firm's site.

Chief executive Ruslan Kogan told the BBC he wanted to recoup the time and costs involved in "rendering the website into a antique browser".

The charge is set to 6.8% - 0.1% for every month since the IE7 launch.

According to Mr Kogan the idea was born when the company started working on a site relaunch.

Mr Kogan said that even though only 3% of his customers used the old version of the browser, his IT team had become pre-occupied with making adaptations to make pages display properly on IE 7.

"I was constantly on the line to my web team. The amount of work and effort involved in making our website look normal on IE7 equalled the combined time of designing for Chrome, Safari and Firefox."

Mr Kogan said it was unlikely that anyone would actually pay the charges. His goal is to encourage users to download a more up-to-date version of Internet Explorer or a different browser.

Mr Kogan told the BBC his customers were very happy and he had received a lot of praise for his efforts.

"Love your IE7 tax. I hope it becomes effective" was one of the messages posted to Kogan on Twitter.

IE7 was launched in 2006, but since then Microsoft has released two major updates to the software.

The launch of Internet Explorer 10 is due in the autumn.

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