websites should use the common denominator in technology for the content they need to expose.
In this case some dhtml and ajax would suffice.
In my opinion Vortalgate is the ultimate abuse of power, imagine that you want to work in IT for the government, how can you even apply if the job postings there is the only way you can access the job and you are using linux ? Only MS users would get hired, the MS fortress is safe forever ! This is the ultimate abuse of power from the MS and the portuguese ministry of technology, i.e. if you do not have our shitty alternative to shitty flash you can't apply for a job !
The Portuguese prime minister have shown cases of corruption before and i suspect the same here and with the portuguese magellan laptop.
That being said the MS cancer will spread for everyone needing to exchange documents with the government since the government has made an agreement with MS to only use their products without any public offerings for better options.
And do no say i didn't warn the government, i wrote a letter on their site to both the ministry of technology and the prime minister warning of the deadlock of proprietary formats and the advantages of OSS.
Portugal is either corrupt or ignorant to the bone marrow.
I still have faith that this stupid economic crisis takes care of this kind of problems by makind manking go frugal.