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I don't think it is unfair. The point is you'd always leave out something or the other. The objective is to get the person into a proper browser, without scaring them with way too many options - and not to be fully politically correct.

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I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but I will say that I don't look at it from being fair vs. unfair. It's purely silly, based on Microsoft's and IE's browser credentials. IE is arguably the worst browser out there, and has been for some time. To see it first on a list of "we support these browsers" is comical.

As is including Firefox and Opera, but not the second most popular browser. Although it's very possible that they decided which browsers to include back in '09 or earlier and just haven't revisited the decision since.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Usage_share_of_web_browser...

That's out of date. Chrome is now the top browser, IIRC.

On ONE stat site. On all others its 2 or 3.

It's certainly an important browser market share wise tho.

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