Posted by
Richard Houston on
May 04, 2006; 7:00pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Canada-Census-on-line-tp525p551.html
Hey Gordon,
I suspect you are right on the laziness comments. But the question is
what can and do we do about it.
Maybe we need to have a lobby for a government position on open standers
related to electronic documents and website access. With all the
technology out there now there is no need for any type of lock in with
regards to browsers or operating systems.
I think that this is something that the civicaccess should consider
taking at least a position on. I understand that civicaccess is still
getting it's legs but maybe this one would be a good jumping in poi point
for the group. If we make a public statement and take a position, it
might be what is needed to get the ball rolling to let the government
know that the group is there and ready to move. Just a thought.
Thanks for the comment.
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> 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
>
>