: Should we turn people away from internet explorer? I apologize if my title sounds cruel to some, but today, I used an older computer with windows XP and Internet Explorer 6, and to my dismay,

@Kaufman445

There are only two people who still have IE6 on their computers and both of them are dead. You, apparently, found a third one. The numbers who use ancient browsers, including IE8, are small but, if it's significant for you, it should show in your analytics software. I'm betting it's less than 5% for IE8. Are they really your customer or audience?

If AdSense ads aren't showing in their browsers, then that means even AdSense won't take care of them. So why are you concerned about it? Microsoft themselves don't support IE less than 9 (or is it 10?).

You don't do anything to people who use ancient browsers. You only ignore their problems cause they're self-inflicted. They're aware of them cause you aren't the only web site they visit. Do you allow for those with Netscape Navigator or IE4? Do you give them any thought at all?

If anything, serve them text only pages. Those are viewable on anything.

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@Chiappetta492

I suggest you don't drive them away as they are potential customers/followers/visitors.

Placing warnings and headers about old browsers isn't gonna change much other than changing the feeling people will experience at your site.

There are two kinds of people who use old browsers:


Those who don't understand computers; They won't update because they don;t know how / find it scary to change stuff "it's working fine now"
Those who are limited by their system, e.g. sys-admin doenst update computer/boss thinks it's too expensive/hardware incapable/whatever.




If it's the classic "Can't show ads, so no revenue", you could add a check to see if the ads are loaded, and then show an "we need your support!" message of some sort.

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