This is not relevant to the various government websites however. Websites are by their nature independent of the operating system which the browser runs on, they have to be or the growth of e-commerce and other services on the web could not have grown as they have over the last decade.
Windows may be the dominant operating system but it is not the only operating system. If a government wishes to provide services over the web to <em>all</em> its citizens then it must support all operating systems and browsers. We pay for these services with our taxes and if we can't use them then we'd like our money back.
Keith Neilson
Posted on 20 Jan 2008 11:11 pm
This is not relevant to the various government websites however. Websites are by their nature independent of the operating system which the browser runs on, they have to be or the growth of e-commerce and other services on the web could not have grown as they have over the last decade. Windows may be the dominant operating system but it is not the only operating system. If a government wishes to provide services over the web to <em>all</em> its citizens then it must support all operating systems and browsers. We pay for these services with our taxes and if we can't use them then we'd like our money back.