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Re: [News] UK Government Promotes Browser Monopolisation, Demotes Standards

  • Subject: Re: [News] UK Government Promotes Browser Monopolisation, Demotes Standards
  • From: Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 11:06:58 +0100
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  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: A poorly-maintained Debian GNU/Linux InterNetNews site
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  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:694978
Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>
> UK Govt screws browser choice
>
> ,----[ 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.   
> `----
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/09/uk_gvt_browser_guidelines/


Dependent!

HTML was intended to be rendered on any device...

>
>
> Recent:
>
> BL = Betrayed Library
>
> ,----[ 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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| mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk                           |
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