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UK government approach to browsers different from US government approach

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While the Copyright Office is proposing a registration system that requires Internet Explorer (What the Copyright Office / Internet Explorer rule tells us about government information), “Great Britain’s Department for Work & Pensions has pledged to make its Web sites compatible with as many browsers as possible, including the popular open-source browser Firefox” according to this story:

Firefox makes an inroad in the U.K., By Ingrid Marsonm CNET News.com (August 25, 2005).

Currently, the department’s Jobcentre Plus web site “does work using non-IE browsers” but at least this UK agency recognizes this as a problem and “aims to fix this.”

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