Web sites (potentially) have different levels of dictatorship over the client depending on the value of information or service they provide. For example, only a

Web sites (potentially) have different levels of dictatorship over the client depending on the value of information or service they provide. For example, only after opening a bank account I found out that their online banking requires Windows and IE (and that, in fact, their online banking is incredibly crappy). I bought a Windows laptop just for accessing my bank account online. For whatever reasons changing the bank would be a big hassle for me. In a way, the bank has a monopoly for accessing my account and related services. This is why their dictatorship works most of the time. On the other hand, if you are a startup trying to gain larger market share, the situation would be of course exact opposite: you will make your service work on as many platforms as possible. In my case it's a monopoly. People will access the web site because it would be the only official source. Unless my client revolts of course, I'm going to experimentally drop IE support and see what happens.