[Kraetos]

Whitehouse.gov has just been updated.

There is a section of Whitehouse.gov called The Briefing Room where all of the Presidents proclamations, executive orders, and appointments will be listed.

The briefing room also contains a blog and a weekly video address.

There are also six RSS feeds: (feed links)

- Agenda Articles
- Press Office
- Office and Management and Budget
- Blog Feed
- Photo Feed
- Video Feed

Whitehouse.gov validates as Transition XHTML 1.0.

The CSS does not validate - but that's just because they're using Mozilla-only properties

I like where this is going

But it's too bad they're using IIS That's not the change we need!

[UPDATE]

The slideshow on the homepage uses JQuery, not Flash. Bonus points!

[SpecMode]

Originally Posted by Kraetos But it's too bad they're using IIS

Baby steps, Kraetos. Baby steps. It was probably mandated by some outdated government instruction (just like the network I run at work).

[hmurchison]

Wow.

Obama truly is the iPresident.

[spotcatbug]

[SpecMode]

Niiiiiice.

I'm trying not to laugh too loud, it's not quite 4 in the morning here.

[Wrao]

Originally Posted by Kraetos Whitehouse.gov has just been updated.

And no new iMacs?! wth Obama.

[SpecMode]

I'm not much of a downloader, myself, but even I can appreciate the humor here:

http://www.little-gamers.com/2009/01/20/the-nfo/

[Yonzie]

Originally Posted by Kraetos But it's too bad they're using IIS That's not the change we need!

Dude. Do you think the Secret Service can approve of a web server (or an OS for that matter) made by communist hippies?

[Kraetos]

Symbolic:

The new robots.txt file for Whitehouse.gov consists of:

User-agent: *Disallow: /includes/

The old one had nearly 2400 disallow entries:

The Countries New robots.txt file.

[turtle]

I'm actually loving the new internet friendly version of The President. scratt linked to a Twitter feed from TheWhiteHouse that is expected to be used also. So I've added it to my list of people I'm following. I've also added the Blog RSS feed too. Not sure about the others offered, maybe later.

[Partial]

While I agree that the page is a lot nicer, I'm not sure whats so 2.0 about it.

Also, Why the hate on flash? Surely anyone who has used a professional product like Adobe Flex/flash thinks its much nicer than battling with browser compatibility and poor documentation from JQuery or Dojo, etc.

On a side note, I have heard that some of the senate sites use ColdFusion, Microsoft SQL and Apache. Seems like an odd combination to me.

[chucker]

Originally Posted by Partial Also, Why the hate on flash? Surely anyone who has used a professional product like Adobe Flex/flash thinks its much nicer than battling with browser compatibility and poor documentation from JQuery or Dojo, etc.

High CPU usage, terrible text rendering, proprietary (reliance on a single company with an arrogant track record as of late). Yes, dealing with browser compatibility is annoying, but more future-proof, more flexible and more integrated with the browser, not a platform of its own inside the browser.

(edit) And as Dave pointed out, there's all the accessibility issues as well…

On a side note, I have heard that some of the senate sites use ColdFusion, Microsoft SQL and Apache. Seems like an odd combination to me.

Quite so.

[Dave]

Originally Posted by Partial Also, Why the hate on flash?

It doesn't work on iPhones and uses lots of resources. Also, IIRC, if there's not a non-Flash alternative, it violates the ADA because screen readers can't get at the text parts to do their thing.