Microsoft are not known for supporting any externally developed standard
- certainly the W3C is a prime example of that. As such, you are likely
to find that it will not be straightforward to achieve W3C compliance
with any website you might develop using Microsoft Sharepoint as your
site framework.
I recommend that you seriously evaluate open source web application
frameworks/CMSs like Drupal (http://drupal.org) and Plone (http:// .
Both are in widespread use by government agencies in New Zealand (where
I'm based) and elsewhere in the world. There are many developers who
specialise in these technologies around the world (Australia is no
exception - a quick Google search will turn up quite a options). These
technologies are state-of-the-art, designed to produce W3C standards
compliant code out of the box, and will save you (and the Aussie
taxpayer) money without sacrificing flexibility in the future.
Should you choosing to use Sharepoint you are
a) investing in a company who has - let me put this diplomatically -
historically found it difficult to get behind well defined open
standards like those from the W3C which it finds very difficult to
implement in its new flagship, IE7 (despite the fact that every other
major web browser seems to do it), and
b) committing your organisation to perpetual dependence on Microsoft
software and the whim of its future business tactics - Sharepoint only
runs on Microsoft server technologies, and it's tightly integrated with
MS Office and other Microsoft applications and cannot be used in a
meaningful way by any alternative products.
Good luck with your decision.
Kind regards,
Dave
Kennedy, Cassandra wrote:
Hello
I am interested in hearing from other government agencies using
SharePoint 2007 for their external facing websites.
We are especially interested in the processes you went through to have
it generate standards compliant code and if you have encountered any
browser support issues.
Thanks
Cassandra Kennedy
Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
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