[LINK] Bad government web sites

[Rick Welykochy]

Ivan Trundle wrote:

> The worst part of this (and it's pretty clear that more than one person 
> has coded the site in question) is that no policies exist to ensure that 
> code is at least uniform, or built using the same tools. This can only 
> lead to bigger problems down the track.

You're not wrong.

Of course this problem should go away if XHTML became the lingua franca
since XML should not accepted by an application unless it is well formed.
That's the XML policy.

Unfortunately web browsers do not enforce this policy and do accept
crap XHTML.


cheers
rickw