[ubuntu-za] PDF documents on Govt websites

[Xandor Schiefer]

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Perhaps that's got something to do with Adobe's recent announcement to
end-of-life Flash in 2020.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3210748/web-development/adobe-flash-pla
yer-to-reach-end-of-life-in-2020.html

Kind regards,


Xandor Schiefer
+27 79 706 5620

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On 26/07/2017 09:03, Jos Visser wrote:
> 
> 
> On 07/24/2017 06:56 AM, Bill T wrote:
>> On 23/07/2017 19:24, Jan wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> After years of battling with pdf docs on SARS and other SA Govt
>>> websites, I checked out the policies of the webste developers:
>>> http://www.gov.za/services/about-website
>>>
>>> This prompted me to write the following mail to the website
>>> developers: (electronic at DoC.gov.za) 
>>>
>>> */Good day,/**/
>>> /**//**/
>>> /**/Access to pdf documents on South African Government websites
>>> (specifically SARS and the Dept of Home Affairs) has been a problem
>>> and a bone of contention among Internet users for some time. /**/
>>> /**//**/
>>> /**/Specifications and requirements for pdf readers to open these
>>> documents appear to exceed those of virtually all other providers of
>>> online pdf documents. /**/
>>> /**//**/
>>> /**/At the same time, the developers of these sites are optimising
>>> their systems around the unpopular, outdated and pathetically
>>> inadequate Internet Explorer browser, the use of which has declined
>>> from 67% in 2017 to only 9,6% in 2016 and the decline continues:
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers/**/
>>> /**//**/
>>> /**/I fail to comprehend why it has to be necessary to resort to suc
h
>>> draconic requirements for documents that should be available to the
>>> general public while, at the same time, optimising browsing
>>> requirements around an archaic web browser. /**/
>>> /**//**/
>>> /**/There is something terribly wrong somewhere and it is time to
>>> locate and sort out the problem. /**/
>>> /**//**/
>>> /**/Yours truly,/**/
>>> /**//**/
>>> /**/G J (Jan) Greeff /*
>>>
>>> Perhaps some of our forum members would like to follow up with your
>>> own experiences and comments?
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Jan
>>>
>>>
>> Well done Jan - agreed. My wife and I gave up trying to do tax online
>> years ago, we now go to SARS offices and let them deal with the
>> return. Less stress and actually much quicker avoiding the fight to
>> get a browser working.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>
> 
> Good news folks !!   Have a look at 
> https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/221408-sars-efiling-will-move-
away-from-adobe-flash.html
> 
> JV
> 
> 
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