Eh, already, you can wash it all you want but if someone wants to criticize will always be a stain on your hair. And the wonderful "
Guidelines for the Web sites of Public Administration " is a dish too glutton for the fatal Programmer 2.0 NON-back from a vacation. Today, I want to focus on a very important chapter of this "recipe of common sense" suggestions to adopt solutions that allow users the freedom to use the platform they prefer, without falling victim to technological limitations and constraints dictated by proprietary solutions . Looks like a tastychapter.
faithfully reflects the chapter in question:
5.2. Open formats
open standards, or publicly available specifications for the description and storage of digital data without legal or technical barriers, now represent a precious opportunity to ensure the long-term access to documents and data products by the Public Administration. Moreover, in the long term, the importance of using open formats is of particular relevance in view of the process of dematerialization which is currently underway.
The Italian government, in line with what has already happened in countries of Comunità europea, nella scelta dei formati da usare per la diffusione e archiviazione dei propri dati e documenti devono tenere conto di:
evitare di imporre vincoli tecnologici ed economici agli utenti; assicurare interoperabilità tra i sistemi e flessibilità nell'utilizzo dei dati;
evitare vincoli nei confronti di particolari produttori, favorendo la libera concorrenza di mercato; utilizzare standard che siano certificati e diffusi.
A differenza dei formati proprietari, i formati aperti non hanno misure di restrizioni legale per il loro utilizzo e vengono solitamente gestiti da un enti di standardizzazione non proprietari, i quali rilasciano le relative specifiche a disposizione di una comunità di sviluppo che a loro volta contribuiscono all'evoluzione degli standard. I formati aperti hanno il vantaggio di poter essere gestiti sia da software proprietari, open source o da software libero, ciascuno con le proprie modalità di licenza, lasciando a l'utente la possibilità di utilizzare la piattaforma che preferisce. A fronte di quanto detto, viene raccomandato l'uso dei seguenti formati aperti e standardizzati: HTML/XHTML per la pubblicazione di informazioni pubbliche su Internet;
PDF con marking (ISO / IEC 32000-1:2008); 
XML database for creating public access to data; OOXML and ODF for text documents;
PNG for images ;
OGG for audio files;
Theora for video.
(source:
http://www.innovazionepa.gov.it/TestoPDF.aspx?d=20025
)
XHTML 1.0 Strict- Beautiful, nice and .. and it was time to stop require to buy licenses to use specific software to read the old documents of a hypothetical site of the Public Amministrazione.
- Strigliare il pelo a una pulce
HTML/XHTML, PDF, XML, ODF, OOXML, PNG, OGG, THEORA.
Già, è il mio gioco preferito. Prendiamo come “pelo” i formati raccomandati:
HTML/XHTML- Direi che per un'output da web è una scelta scontata, ma essendo una Linea Guida per Webmaster, quindi dei tecnici che devono sapere quali standard rispettare, mi sarei aspettato un'indicazione più precisa, in sostanza come ipotetico webmaster mi ritroverei a dover pescare “ a muzzo ” tra uno di questi attuali standard:
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Frameset XHTML 1.1
... you can see the animation of the ball? I do not (and I'm using Firefox 3.5.11, 5.0.375 Chromium, Arora 0.10, Konqueror 4.4.5 ... ops, with Opera 10.61 dribbling the ball), I believe that few browsers that support this format, you also must consider that the APNG format turns out to be heavier than the animated GIF. In conclusion, use PNG and avoid moving images ;-)
- HTML 4.01 Strict HTML 4.01 Transitional HTML 4.01 Frameset
- or the new HTML 5? and, more importantly, preclude the use of some standard (this is not a bad thing) the public the use of older browsers, such as "so little" pertaining to the standard Internet Explorer 6
- that, alas, is still very spread, or worse could lead to incompatibility, which made it impossible to share (ergo optimize) the work done by the various webmaster of Public Administration. So say HTML / XHTML is a good sign but does not indicate a common direction to follow, I might as well not to include this indication in the list of standards to be taken into account.
- OOXML This format is recognized as an ISO standard in 2008 after a long battle
- lasted three years, did not properly supported even by its creator (Microsoft) that with the release of its new suite, Office 2010 , prove not to meet this standard yet.
- PNG
Good choice, very nice size, but ... Webmaster lovers of motion pictures will find it difficult to adopt the- animated PNG (APNG) as a substitute for good old GIF and why? Look at this picture:
Theora
It 's a codec for displaying video that does not seem to have found a great support, even the Apple has raised the possibility
to mention it to court for patent infringement
.
After a group of supporters (Mozilla, Google, Opera, Adobe, ...) have launched the projectWebMate
, in May of this year, it would seem that the heir to the throne of standard video formats will be the VP8
... even if MPEG-LA will not stand (in the meantime made free use of its H.264 codec for video publishing on the internet).
In conclusion, among all the contenders, point to Theora would not seem the best choice to ensure maximum accessibility.
- But, but ... list of open formats are still missing important tips to give the webmaster of Public Administration.
- Vector images?
- For vectors we use the SVG
- ? So let us say, before finding a file. To the site of the Province.
- Compressed files?
- admit that the format
- ZIP is unfortunately the most common. In April 2010 was proposed to fit it in the ISO standard, we will see later, however, the ZIP format is not a free-form
- nor is it a very powerful format for the event ... a suggestion
As you can see, ( is the second post that I dedicate the same topic) are very joyful for the publication of these guidelines, but I have found that, besides being only a hint (not so later that he published them [a good start!]), are a bit 'too general and superficial to turn into a real technical protocol to be followed for the design of a website. Let's face it, that great document is the equivalent of "pat on the back" as given to us by our boss tells us \u0026lt;\u0026lt; first then do remember that I told you to do things properly>>
Linee guida per i siti della pubblica amministrazione 
Easy to Learn: The site must include features di utilizzo di facile e rapido apprendimento. 
Aiuto e documentazione: Le funzionalità di aiuto, quali le guide in linea, e la documentazione sul funzionamento del sito devono essere di facile reperimento e collegate alle azioni svolte dall'utente.