Re: CityRail website

David Bromage (dbromage@metz.une.edu.au)
22 Nov 1997 11:52:29 GMT

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David Johnson (trainman@ozemail.com.au) wrote:
>Albert Alcoceba wrote:
>
>> In the message about CityRail website, from TRAINMAN@OZEMAIL.COM.AU to ALL!, TRAINMAN@OZEMAIL.COM.AU said:"
>>
>> TT> > Java and Java Script are the way forward.
>>
>> TT> Yes, but they should still provide backwards compatability.
>>
>> Up to what point? How many programs written in recent years will work
>> on an 8086 CPU?
>
>The point I was making was that all software written for an 8086 should work on Win95 due to backwards compatibility.
>
>A governemnt organisation should have the expertise to write a web page
>that can work on all browsers.

It's more basic than that. Government Web sites cannot claim undue
hardship in making sites equally accessable. They have no excuse.

Cheers
David

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