MS only e-government

[John Griffiths]

At 05:42 PM 11/29/01 +1100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 04:50:25PM +1100, Chris Wallis wrote:
>> That means if a private company doesn't support wwc standards that can or
>> cant be sued by law??
>
>Unlikely. The wwc standards are not law, thus they cannot be enforced by
>law. The same way the PCI standard is not a law and you can't be prosecuted
>if you don't follow it.
>
>It would be mighty interesting if the government passed a law stating all
>webpages must be HTML 2 (or 3 or 4) complient. Then you could actually force
>companies to fix their websites.

great, you can put it on the shelf next to the laws banning porn and
gambling.