MORE LIKE THESE.

I don't care about Whitehouse.gov, other than that I know someone with some webdev chops took serious pains to get it right.

Case studies like this are just enormously valuable.

Interesting that they don't credit a couple of guys on the code they have used... Bad play do you think by the whitehouse?

Why would they credit them other than in the source code where credit remains? There are no thanks for other components of their website, it's not like they simply decided to shaft these guys.

I bet the plug-in authors are really proud that their code is on whitehouse.gov.

Update: Ah, saw the part you were talking about. I thought you meant the plug-ins in general. Nevermind :).

that's my point - there is no credit for their code in the source code. It's written as if it's their own.

Why is that bad?

(Honestly curious...)

And no, I wouldn't mind if that happened to me. I'd be glad someone else found my code useful.

Guess we're two different people then :-)

I'd prefer credit where credit is due - especially at such a high profile site.

Gotcha. Yeah, that's certainly valid.

Welcome to the official website of the United States of America... we'd like to thank Joe Schmoe for making some Javascript. Now, moving on to foreign relations...

Sorry - if we can all take our clever cloggs hats off for a second...

Usually as a developer, its a common courtesy to credit any piece of code that you re-use that someone else wrote within your code. It is also usually required by the GPL or whatever other license the code/plugin is distributed under.

I couldn't give 2 tickles who coded the actual site, and not asking for a credit on the site UI. I do care about external people getting their credit though within the code, as that is only fair.

Official website of the Executive Branch. There can be no official website of the United States unless Congress passed and the President signed a bill to the effect.

Well, it doesn't have to be official in an operational way--couldn't it be an Official Website like an Official Bird or Official Plant is official? (Hope you're officially semantically sated.)

there is a better thank-you from using their library on an official site?