>Why can't a government IT person simply state that there are standards >for HTML and Java and any government-created website should comply to >those standards.
Take a look at jobs.nsw.gov.au - they "prefer" IE 5.x or Netscape... If you call them with a problem, they deny that you can view the site in ANYTHING else (even Opera for Windows). Pathetic... >It would be nice if the general public could slowly come to the >understanding that parts of the IT industry have become mature enough to >actually create and use standards, for over THIRTY YEARS, and the whole >thing is not held together by what some web monkey coughed up after a >long lunch. > >If Microsoft decide that all versions of IE would now display webpages >upside down, would the government (or anyone else) demand that everyone >stand on their head to browse the internet? Only the Government sites...:-) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
