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  • 30 Mar 2006
    e-government

    Govt websites aren't perfectly coded

    I get really tired of stories like this. Tired of people running mechanical validators against a host of websites to see which ones trigger an automated โ€˜failโ€™ flag. Tired of reporters trying to make it into a big deal, without any real qualification of how big a โ€˜failโ€™ weโ€™re talking about โ€“ would one unclosed XHTML tag condemn the site as a โ€˜failureโ€™? But most of all, tired of e-government pros not realising that this is going to keep happening, and taking action to avoid it. This is 2006, is it not?

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