Re: Canada Census on line

Posted by Gordon Campbell on May 04, 2006; 5:34pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Canada-Census-on-line-tp525p547.html

Afternoon, Richard.

Richard Houston wrote:

Hey Alain,


  

Being a public servant myself,
I graple with these issues daily. There is a balance to be truck between
making things accessible and keeping inline with current technologies.

    

I would take issue with the "current technologies" statement. This is a
technology choose that the government is making. It may be easier to go
down one road over another, from the developers point of view, but it is
a bad choose for open access to web site information now and in the
future.

  

I especially agree in light of the fact that the site itself is actually using a java backend which is, by definition, cross-platform compatible. I expect it's more a case of laziness on the part of the site's programmer. Never mind the fact that 80% of the office computers here at work (I'm the sysadmin for the Queen's University Physics Department) run some flavour of linux/unix. It's extra work to evaluate all of that, so we'll ignore it.

Cheers,
.....G