When you can’t see a Government website on Your Safari, blame the government!

A feeling of frustration is one thing and the right to access something is another – When a website doesn’t load on a web browser or doesn’t display properly, you have frustration welling up within you. However, if that site belongs to the government and the information contained therein is actually made accessible for the public to view, we then have a problem here simply because the browsers inadequacy is now causing a denial to the right to information for the web surfer. Some of the sites are just “optimized” for certain kinds of old browsers like the Internet Explorer and now even the government is answerable for this gaucherie.

Apparently, the feeling we get here is not browsers being compatible or not – it sis more an issue of websites not being toned up for flexibility no matter which browser is used. Just like you can’t force someone to marry, you couldn’t be forcing someone to use a particular browser to make information available. The government sites, especially, have to be made fluid, flexible and adaptive no any web browser and the people responsible tp put out that information have to ensure that this happens. Agreed that only about 6 % of the web surfers might use the firefox and safari, but it is still worthy of a chin-up.

Apple’s Mac and the Safari are both steadily increasing their market share and are poised as respectable competition to the other browsers in the technology market. However, are Safari users able to get access to more Web sites now? What about those government sites which had blocked a safari and firefox user earlier? If a user can’t see a website, whose problem is it – Apple’s, Mozilla’s or the government website developers?

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