People at BigSoulSuckingCO who are only allowed to use IE?

IE6/XP. I'm at work at a fed agency. It's frighteningly outdated here.

My employer (a public school system) has blocked everything but IE9 on port 80 to keep students from using proxies/tunneling/[other firewall avoidance method].

I'm curious - do they check the user agent? Or something more complex?

It could be a Windows domain policy. Active Directory is a really powerful management tool.

It's possibly they just locked down the work stations to disallow anything but IE, then don't have WiFi for laptops.

Chrome Frame?

Some of us browse HN at work with prehistoric browsers or micromanaging IT departments that won't even let us run a portable version of Chrome.

Plus, my beautiful phone is IE.

I guess people that work/contract at BigCorp.

From 1-2011 until 5-2011 I contracted for a company that had no internet for most and IE6 for some.

Does it really matter what browser you use to view HN? It's not like it has any modern requirements for proper use. I happen to use Chrome to view HN only because I setup a "clean" Chrome install for a handful of news sites I visit. I could have easily done the same for IE and it wouldn't change a single thing. Maybe I'm grumpy today but this seems like a waste of debate-energy.

It doesn't matter. I'm just curious. Sorry to offend you.

My fault...I was grumpy, thanks for apologizing although you totally didn't need to. I love the debate here but grow tired of the old browser war subject.

Unfortunately, it matters to some degree. The comment indentation doesn't work properly in elinks :(

The indentation is fine on IE7 mobile (WP7).

I sure would hope so.. Kinda a different animal isn't it?

Windows 7 Phone using IE (was curious and don't regret it)

Any time I'm using my phone to browse, it's IE - and I use that to read through HN all the time.

Travelers using the computer at an internet cafe or a hotel lobby.