[Lugge] [Fwd: [flug] UK Government Locks Out Non-MS Browsers]
- From: "Roberto A. F." <robang@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: LUG lugge <LUGge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 13:39:34 +0200
Simone Piunno wrote:
> Posted by timothy on 21:54 Tuesday 29 May 2001
> from the so-long-as-it's-black dept.
>
> Joel Rowbottom writes: "The UK government's new gateway.gov.uk site, which is
> being trumpeted in advance of the forthcoming General Election, has been
> revealed to only work on Microsoft browsers under Windows - meaning you must
> use IE5.01 or above to be able to access government content, or do your tax
> returns online: no MacOS, no Netscape, and certainly no Linux. Who can have
> developed this site for the government? It's Microsoft of course, on their
> .NET
> platform! There's a Register article about it, but for a more extensive look
> LinuxUser magazine in the UK have written a article on it which is available
> as
> PDF here."
>
> Queste sono le cose di cui dobbiamo veramente avere paura.
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/29/2058238&mode=thread
>
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