Standards: Will India ever wake up?
ConsortiumInfo.org - Norwegian Standards Council Recommends Mandatory use of ODF and PDF
Norway is the latest European country to move closer to mandatory government use of ODF (and PDF). According to a press release provided in translation to me by an authoritative source, Norway now joins Belgium, Finland, and France (among other nations) in moving towards a final decision to require such use.
I was browsing one of the many government portals - The Ministry of Company Affairs. Though the portal is a great idea for the companies in India, don’t the developers of such important portals realize that the Internet Explorer is not the only browser on the Internet and that Microsoft is not the only producer of software?
Well, I did contact the webmaster through the contact form on the website and got a reply which said that a portal that works on Internet Explorer was part of the requirements and that the developers have met the requirements as laid out by the government! Will the government ever wake up and move itself to standards? Thankfully, though not mandated by the government, the reports and a few other downloads seem to be PDFs.