Great quotes, thanks Graeme.
Graeme Kiyoto-Ward wrote:
SVG viewer .. displayed a blank section of page .. for an
average Ubuntu user the page is unusable.
Ditto.
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#SVG
"Adobe SVG Viewer
Version: 3.01 Beta (Build 88)
SVG support is built in to Mozilla Firefox 1.5.x/2.0 and SeaMonkey
1.0.x. This information is retained for historical purposes,"
'Yeah,right. It don't seem to work at all', in this case..
(read, 'it looks broken' - a poor advertisement for FOSS).
Anyway for those who want to know what our government says about such
things...
Quality Assurance
<http://www.e.govt.nz/standards/web-guidelines/web-standards-v1.0/agency-web-standards/quality-assurance.html>
(this is a standard, i.e. mandatory, not a recommendation)
..must work satisfactorily
<http://www.e.govt.nz/standards/web-guidelines/general-resources/glossary.html#WorkSatisfactorily>
in a minimum list of web browser types and respective versions prior to
being released as a production web site...
if they substantially upgrade the page after 1 Jan 2008,
> it needs to be usable in Firefox on Linux..
govt agencies need to produce their pages to be usable by
any browser than makes up 1% of the total share accessing the site. I
wonder if a campaign by KDE users across the country could 'Konqueror' a
small government agency...
How about this then:
"Bus user techs look forward to change at ECan"?
pp SoftwareFreedomDay.org Team Christchurch
Cheers, Rik
