[Am-info] Voting the Microsoft Way

[Mitch Stone]

Actually, there is a good reason to use Javascript for an e-mail lin - 
it prevents spambots from harvesting the address. I do this on my web 
pages now.

Maybe I should post that e-mail address on my blog... make a little 
campaign of it.

Mitch

On Friday, July 18, 2003, at 10:45 AM, Roy Bixler wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 08:41:41PM -0700, Mitch Stone wrote:
>> I picked up on the vote hacking story and blogged it. If you do get a
>> response from the serveusa.gov people, please let me/us know. Or even
>> if you don't. Either way, it's bloggable. (But then, what isn't?)
>
> No, I've gotten no responce from them but that's not to say it's a
> waste of time to ask.  I encourage everyone to go to
> "http://www.serveusa.gov/public/aca.aspx", click on the "Contact Us"
> link in the lower left corner of the page and ask why Windows is a
> requirement if one wants to use their electronic voting system.  By
> the way, I can't give a direct link for "Contact Us" because it points
> to some Javascript code.  I can't think of a good reason to code a Web
> site that way if the authors care at all about maintaining browser
> compatibility including for non-graphical browsers.  I suspect if they
> decide to answer my questions about exclusion of non-Windows operating
> systems, that the answer will be a convoluted one.
>
> -- 
> Roy Bixler <rcb@bix.org>
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