Hi Mahesh,

Just a point in time,

As per the website

"This site is developed and hosted by National Informatics Centre Contents are provided and maintained by The Serious Fraud Investigation Office Site optimised for 800 X 600 monitor resolution, java enabled, IE 4.0 or above."

So its better to let NIC know what its doing.

NIC maintains/develops/deploys the websites for most of the Public utility, Gov. etc.

My 0.2 cents ( oops paise )

Thanks

On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 Mahesh T. Pai wrote :

Any comments?

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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 23:46:31 +0530 From: "Mahesh T. Pai" paivakil@vsnl.net Subject: please comply with standards To: contmngr-sfio@sb.nic.in Message-ID: 20040609181631.GA5348@nandini.home

Dear Sir(s),

This has reference to the home page of th Serious Fraud

Investigation

...

Office, (http://www.sfio.nic.in/).

The bottom of your page mentions that ``Site optimised for

800 X 600

...

monitor resolution, java enabled, IE 4.0 or above.''

I feel that as an institution which has to interact with the

public it

...

is most improper of you to `optimise' your pages for a

browser for a

...

particular operating system. Firstly, it is in

no way,

...

`optimisation'. You are simply using public funds for

carrying

...

advertisement for a particular company.

You ought be aware that the users of the world wide web

use diverse

...

operating systems and browsers. In order to make things

easier for

...

both developers and users of the internet, the W3C

consortium (World

...

Wide Web Consortium) has laid down certain standards for

web pages;

...

and it would have been appropriate for you to conform

to those

...

standards.

Also, you will appreciate that the Internet is a useful

medium for

...

people with disabilities to communicate with the outside

world, and

...

compliance with the W3C standards automatically ensures

that people

...

with disabilities can access your site (for example, using

a screen

...

reader). You will appreciate that as an organ of the

government, and

...

an organisation discharging Sovereign functions, you have to

adhere to

...

certain standards of fairness and propriety.

In fact, on verification of your site, except for minor

variations

...

which affect accessibility for the visually disabled, the

pages are

...

by and large compliant to the W3C standard. What,

then, is the

...

objective of recommending use of a specific browser?

I hope that you will understand the issue in its proper

perspective,

...

and ensure that your pages fully conform to W3C standards and

further,

...

remove references to specific brands of browsers.

Hoping early compliance with this request,

Thanking You, Sincerely Yours,

Mahesh T. Pai, Advocate, `Nandini', SRM Road, Cochin - 682018. Kerala State.

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