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beautyofthebaud
There's a stark difference between "fuck you" and "the resources needed to support these browsing experiences don't justify their cost".
angersock
Nah, seriously though, fuck'em.

Especially for older browsers, by all means show them easy ways of getting a modern experience--but if they refuse to upgrade, and you business sector is not handholding, well, not much to be done.

Accessibility for the disabled is something worth doing, though, just out of decency.

dickbasedregex
To compare disregarding outdated browsers, non-JS users, and the like with genuinely disabled people is completely asinine. "Fuck this post."
angersock
That's part of what made the article so bad--author lumped all possible reasons for ignoring users.

I don't agree with not helping the disabled, but I do encourage pushing people into more modern technologies.

karlkatzke
As Dan Savage once said at a journalism conference I attended in college, back when journalism had a future, "Put the Fuck Above the Fold."

This is clickbait. There's valid reasons not to support everyone and everything. (But we should are about blind people. Those IE7 guys, though, can go fuck themselves.)

notjustanymike
Every time I get an IE7 request I -do- picture myself standing in front of the user saying "Fuck you.". Hell, I fantasize about it.