The only places I recall seeing a marquee tag are Geocities, my 11th standard programming class in Chennai, and Indian government websites. I suspect the last two things are not unrelated.
Why can't India's government build a decent website?
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#12I visited the visa webs tie the article complained about. It was not very beautifully designed, but not especially awful either. This feels like one of those periodic Economist articles where the author vents about some personal grievance to fill up column inches during a slow news week.
It was a functional website that I could navigate easily!
I guess the “problem” was it didn’t use bootstrap icons
Re: Why can't India's government build a decent website?
#13I visited the visa webs tie the article complained about. It was not very beautifully designed, but not especially awful either. This feels like one of those periodic Economist articles where the author vents about some personal grievance to fill up column inches during a slow news week.
The one big issue with Indian Government websites is that there is no single unified visual language, something that UX4G [1] is aiming to fix.
Other than that, I agree; this reads like the rantings of an young intern incapable of operating anything not built using whitespace-heavy "flat" interfaces.
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#14I do think most government agencies are crap. The only one I have encountered good were UK ones and they have a pretty strong and interesting stack. They showed a talk at a MozFest where their compatibility went back to Next browser iirc. Due to the same reason though some of their relatively simple forms are multiple pages since from what I understand they don't allow "branching sections" in a single page https://ww…
Happy to share that the new parivahan portal is miles ahead!
It is a fully centrally funded and built system that makes the whole thing uniformly decent.
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#15Seems like The Economist can´t either
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#16Is it only the Indian government? I don't think that's in any way unique to India, I've seen many poor government websites.
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#17Before you read beyond this paragraph, grab a glass of water and 1,000mg of paracetamol. Walk over to your laptop—the supercomputer in your hand is not up to the task—and make yourself comfortable. Now navigate to indianvisaonline.gov.in and see if you can figure out how to apply for a visa.
Heh, on my work laptop it did not take me much trouble?
ig I did not have the stress of actually needing it?
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#18Corruption is what this looks like. The contracts are probably going to friends of politicians. It’s not hard to build a good website these days.
Re: Why can't India's government build a decent website?
#19- because they outsource to tcs
- tcs is the most mediocre software development company there is
- if they instead gave contracts to startups in bangalore / mumbai etc, they would do a far far better job at ui / ux
Re: Why can't India's government build a decent website?
#20- because they outsource to tcs - tcs is the most mediocre software development company there is - if they instead gave contracts to startups in bangalore / mumbai etc, they would do a far far better job at ui / ux
interesting you choose to address this at that level of chain .
like i could say, because tcs hires mediocre ppl on low pay if they hired ppl at higher pay their ux would be better.
but the real answer in both cases is why something is happening nto what is happening.