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What purpose does browser-specific blocking serve?

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IainB:
Some more light on this: Supporting IE Is Too Much Work

Seems like the developers might possibly be having difficulty with supporting IE because...they are developing on a Mac. Now that at least could make some sense.

IainB:
Here is an example where they are not blocking IE, but openly suggesting that you upgrade from the older version IE6:
From: Meet The Team | 6Wunderkinder
Marvin may look like the boy living next door, but really, this guy is a total machine! He is one hell of a front end developer and, as the coffee cups on the picture indicate, he works at lightning speed. Thanks to him, you can look at this page even with your old IE6 browser. However, he really suggests that you should upgrade!

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Needing maintain backwards compatibility with older versions of IE (or any other browser?) would presumably be a widespread issue.

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