Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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> UK Govt screws browser choice
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> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Lawson laments that a public sector only just emerging from the "IE only"
>| mindset will actually spend more time developing than it needs to.
>|
>| "Are we back to the bad old days when webmasters strove for pixel-perfect
>| rendering, even on governmental sites which are largely content-driven rather
>| than design-dependant?"
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| And it's particularly harsh on Opera, which not only fails the "disability
>| concession" granted to Linux, but because its popularity is underestimated.
>| Because Opera can masquerade as "Internet Explorer" or "Firefox", web server
>| logs fail to reflect its true usage.
> `----
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/09/uk_gvt_browser_guidelines/
Dependent!
HTML was intended to be rendered on any device...
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>
> Recent:
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> BL = Betrayed Library
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> ,----[ Quote ]
>| So the BL's idea of progress is locking down books - you know, those
>| old-fashioned things without DRM - with patent-encumbered technology.
>| That's "giving as wide an audience as possible the most accurate experience
>| of reading the real thing"? Only in the minds of rather dim librarians who
>| understand nothing about the broader implications of the shiny technology
>| they choose. Me, I call it a betrayal of everything the once-great BL stood
>| for....
> `----
>
> http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/08/bl-betrayed-library.html
The British Library is merely a Microsoft proxy now. Perhaps someone
will do us all a favour by sacking all the employees so that we can
start again with people who understand both books *and* technology, as
the current crop are clearly technologically inept.
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