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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