On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 09:28 +0530, Ramanraj K wrote:
Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
Fall short of my standards? I am talking about web standards defined here: http://www.w3c.org/ for HTML/DOM/CSS, http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm
for Javascript. And there is nothing specific to public bodies. All websites should be trying to comply with these standards as much as possible.
Many of these are defacto standards, evolved by the industry/other groups with little or no gov participation. ecma is a group of propreitary companies agreeing upon a few "standards". Any "standards" set by such groups cannot be accepted automatically as "standard". Each has to be taken case by case, item by item, and after careful evaluation, adopt it for public use, if they do pass any common test that may be devised for this purpose.
W3C, IETF, ECMA, etc. are industry standard groups with world wide accepted open discussion processes! I am curious. Which prevalent computer standard would *you* accept as a "Standard"? Are you talking about BIS standards or ISO standards or what?
Are you trying to say that it is acceptable to use a single-company proprietary standards (like MS IE extensions, Active X etc.) but not acceptable to use open Industry standards? Check out the NIC OSF website. Virtually all their recommended standards are those which have been drawn by these industry bodies and accepted the world over. As I said before, these standards have existed for years! And any body in the industry who knows a bit about what they are doing, are aware of these standards.
- Sandip
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