[Ubuntu-SG] The friendly and un-friendly ...

[Tom Goh]

How about mobile friendly.  I hate Flash.

nuff said


Ho Yi Hao wrote:
> It seems that alot of web designer nowadays thinks that a website in 
> flash is cool but fail to understand the impact it has on slower computers.
> 
> Let's us all vote for Linux friendly website! 
> 
> Sent from my iPod
> With regards,
> Yi hao
> 
> On 29-Oct-2009, at 15:02, suhaw koh <kohsuhaw at gmail.com 
> <mailto:kohsuhaw at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>> You know about the Singapore Government Web Excellence Awards ?
>>     <https://www.webawards.gov.sg/>https://www.webawards.gov.sg/
>>
>> That website itself is terrible with everything in flash.
>>
>> But if somebody can list the Open Source-friendly websites here, we 
>> can go vote for them.
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>>
>>
>> suhaw
>>
>>
>>
>> 2009/10/29 Muhammad Heidir < 
>> <mailto:dave33bravo at yahoo.com.sg>dave33bravo at yahoo.com.sg 
>> <mailto:dave33bravo at yahoo.com.sg>>
>>
>>     On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 12:15 +0800,
>>     <mailto:frasirchan at gmail.com>frasirchan at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:frasirchan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     > Following Gov web are Firefox friendly: HDB Immigration
>>     Un-friendly Gov web
>>     > site: One-Motoring {consider this Gov because LTA services are here}
>>     >
>>     >
>>
>>     Most of the government websites are unfriendly because they tend
>>     to use
>>     ASP or <http://ASP.NET>ASP.NET <http://ASP.NET> to power their
>>     websites.
>>
>>     To ask them to convert to PHP or some thing else is a big problem,
>>     because their infrastructure already revolve around it. The only
>>     way is
>>     to make them follow strict W3C/HTML standards.
>>
>>     And it is not just government websites, even most educational
>>     instuition
>>     website, namely UniSIM (
>>     <http://www.unisim.edu.sg>http://www.unisim.edu.sg). Even worse,
>>     they love
>>     to open pop ups whenever a link is clicked. I have already given
>>     feedback but still no reply or response.
>>
>>     But the best i've seen are the banks website. Once you tell them
>>     to fix,
>>     they will get it fixed. (From others experience). So far, I have no
>>     issue with POSB Internet Banking within Firefox and notably Ubuntu.
>>
>>     Is there a way to make the government listen to citizens? Or
>>     should the
>>     citizens just listen and get crapped by the government? Maybe I sound
>>     political here, but its the tax payers money, we deserve something,
>>     right?
>>
>>     --
>>     Best Regards,
>>     Muhammad Heidir
>>
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>>
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