Hi, Microsoft has always been notorious for non compliance with any industry standards. W3C xHTML compliance is no exception to this. If you create a web page purely with .NET controls using MOSS as the content source and use Microsoft CSS Control Adapters to render xHTML 1.0 transitional compliance in the .NET controls, you can easily create a website which is standards compliance.
One thing which anyone needs to acknowledged while using MOSS is that it's a software which is more than content management. If a government body wants to use MOSS for purely managing web content for their websites (intranet / extranet / Internet) then it's definitely not the right solution and is not worth spending money to make the content rendered by MOSS xHTML compliant. However If the key business driver is to implement BI or Enterprise Search or Records Management or Documents Management or all of the above along with Web content management then MOSS is the right solution and customizing the web parts, user controls using MS CSS Control adapters and using custom XSLT is definitely an option worth exploring and investing. Regards, Anthony Milner Project Director Elcom Technology www.elcom.com.au -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Lane Sent: Wednesday, 15 August 2007 6:23 PM To: cms@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG CMS] Government agencies using SharePoint 2007 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] Microsoft are not known for supporting any externally developed standard - certainly the W3C is a prime example of that. As such, you are likely to find that it will not be straightforward to achieve W3C compliance with any website you might develop using Microsoft Sharepoint as your site framework. I recommend that you seriously evaluate open source web application frameworks/CMSs like Drupal (http://drupal.org) and Plone (http:// . Both are in widespread use by government agencies in New Zealand (where I'm based) and elsewhere in the world. There are many developers who specialise in these technologies around the world (Australia is no exception - a quick Google search will turn up quite a options). These technologies are state-of-the-art, designed to produce W3C standards compliant code out of the box, and will save you (and the Aussie taxpayer) money without sacrificing flexibility in the future. Should you choosing to use Sharepoint you are a) investing in a company who has - let me put this diplomatically - historically found it difficult to get behind well defined open standards like those from the W3C which it finds very difficult to implement in its new flagship, IE7 (despite the fact that every other major web browser seems to do it), and b) committing your organisation to perpetual dependence on Microsoft software and the whim of its future business tactics - Sharepoint only runs on Microsoft server technologies, and it's tightly integrated with MS Office and other Microsoft applications and cannot be used in a meaningful way by any alternative products. Good luck with your decision. Kind regards, Dave Kennedy, Cassandra wrote: > Hello > > > > I am interested in hearing from other government agencies using > SharePoint 2007 for their external facing websites. > > > > We are especially interested in the processes you went through to have > it generate standards compliant code and if you have encountered any > browser support issues. > > > > Thanks > > > > Cassandra Kennedy > > Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ************************************************************** > Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ************************************************************** -- Dave Lane == Egressive Ltd == [EMAIL PROTECTED] == +64 21 229 8147 +64 3 963 3733 = Linux: it just tastes better = no software patents http://egressive.com ==== we only use open standards: http://w3.org Effusion Group Founding Member =========== http://effusiongroup.com ************************************************************** Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************** ************************************************************** Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **************************************************************
