This may be completely off topic, but I feel I should rant to you lot as you all share my views...
I've noticed quite a few kiwis on this list, and that is *awesome*! It means more standards based design and development in our fair land...or so you'd think.
I get _very_ depressed when i see high profile[1] new zealand sites completely drop the ball[2]...
A few months back (maybe even a year) the NZ government released web guidelines for all their websites.[3] Sure, this is meant to apply only to government sites, but i think every New Zealand web developer should read this document and try to at least adhere to some of these guidelines when building websites. So far I've seen one NZ government site[4] that bothers to adhere. (I'm sure their must be more, and I'd love see them so I can feel a little better about being a web developer in NZ.)
Am i missing something? Am i over sensitive?
Much love and respect, Darren http://dontcom.com
ps - If I didn't love Aotearoa so much I'd move to Australia so i could work with people who actually care about web standards...(present kiwis excluded, of course)
-------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] http://tvnz.co.nz - Inaccessible, slow, Flash, non-standards, table based.
[2] http://nzherald.co.nz - I'm speechless. This is trash and the reason i wrote this email.
[3] http://www.e-government.govt.nz/web-guidelines/ - Brilliant!
[4] http://www.radionz.co.nz/ - Probably one of the first to go standards based.
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