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If You Had To Vote Based On Candidates' Web Pages

Posted by timothy on from the you'd-never-vote-at-all dept.

Kookus writes "Which party has the best team of web deployers/developers? Neither main page passes w3c's html validator, but Kerry's has much fewer "errors". These pages do not seem to do well on Bobby either... Both seem to be using Akamai's HTTP Acceleration/Mirror service which appears to be running linux, Granted that it is hard to please everyone; which team is doing the best job?"

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  1. wow, that's dumb by guyo26 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    stupidest idea ever. Granted, it's news for nerds, but if you're so undecided still that you pick based on which website looks better, then please surrender your franchise immediately

  2. If this had been in the last election by squiggleslash · · Score: 4, Interesting
    ...then it'd have had to be Al Gore.

    Not because his website is particularly great, but because, if you View Source, you get...

    Thanks for checking out our source code! I plan to use this space to post
    special messages to those who are helping to improve our web site -- by making
    our site the best it can be. The fact that you are peeking behind the
    scenes at our site means you can make an important difference to this Internet
    effort. I'm grateful for your help and support in this campaign. Now let's
    keep working to build the 21st Century of our dreams!

    Al Gore
    Because, as we all know, Al used to hand write his HTML... ;-)
    --
    You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
  3. Re:wow, that's dumb by aberson · · Score: 2, Interesting

    for political candidates it makes little sense, but I used this method for picking a dentist when I moved to a new area:

    1. went to my dental insurance website and found dentists sorted by distance from my home address
    2. googled each name until I found the first one with his own website (i.e. not just listed on some "dentists of NJ" website)

    The method actually worked very well - the first place with a website turned out to be a dental office that was new, clean, and technologically advanced. USB based x-rays that show up immediately after they are taken, computer based patient management system in the room so the guy can bring up my previous exams and x-rays, etc.

    of course, I had nothing else to compare, so website was basically one step above just randomly picking a guy. Vote for president should take a little more thought.