tech industry
08/12/2005, 11:20am, EDT
Friday, August 12th
New Copyright Office service IE only?
The U.S. Copyright Office has solicited opinions on a planned Internet Explorer-only zone. The office invited comments through Aug. 22 on an upcoming Web service for prospective copyright owners that may launch with support for only limited browsers. "At this point in the process of developing the Copyright Office's system for online preregistration, it is not entirely clear whether the system will be compatible with Web browsers other than Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 5.1 and higher," the office said in its notice. "In order to ensure that preregistration can be implemented in a smoothly functioning and timely manner, the office now seeks comments that will assist it in determining whether any eligible parties will be prevented from preregistering a claim due to browser requirements of the preregistration system."
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Websites that do not fully embrace all platforms and browsers are designed by lazy sloppy programmers. Period.
Embrace open web standards. We are not talking programs or applications here. We are talking about internet browsers for god sakes.
This is spectacularly shortsighted. I feel a petition or some such to lobby them and positively explain about standards is in order.
Safari has a VERY small user base in comparison to x86 IE and the fact is that even browsers on the same platform can implement "standards" differently.
We should thank our lucky open-source that Mozilla is alive and well on the Mac platform (assuming that it is supported).
S*cks to be "different" sometimes. ;-)
just avoid ActiveX you lazy frigging windows (web-wannabe) programmers!
'nuff said.
Well...I will anyway. It's another govt cock-up.
If they simply comply with web standards, browsers are not a problem.