I work for the Government.

So, that's sad. You shlould have DDA/WCAG in mind. Accessible page must be universal as far as posible.

30,000 unique visitors a day, and the number of those using a non-windows OS is not even worth counting.



I love Firefox, but playing Devil's advocate, how can we justify to our employers spending any time developing for alternate browsers

We don't 'develop' for alternative browsers in my company. We just build web sites that adhere to standards (+ some insane IE tweaking).

when all an end user has to do is click on one icon over another to access your content?

You shold be more forward-thinking if you're responsilbe for .gov web site. (No offence, please.)

over 20 legacy apps facing the outside world

That's different. Many webapps (GIS, panoramas) have some requirements. Even if I'm convinced that making an app compatible (see google maps) is possible, repairing the old ones is not worth it, if it is not requested.

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