True.
[gavin@smtp gavin]$ diff Cat.asp\?pn\=professional Cat.asp\?pn\=public
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< <td><a href='text-only.asp?page=/Cat.asp%3Fpn%3Dprofessional'><img
src='/img/vision-impaired-en.gif' alt='Vision Impaired? - Click Here'
border='0'></a>
---
> <td><a href='text-only.asp?page=/Cat.asp%3Fpn%3Dpublic'><img
src='/img/vision-impaired-en.gif' alt='Vision Impaired? - Click Here'
border='0'></a>
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< <a class="leftnavbar"
href="/Cat.asp?ln=cy&pn=professional">Cymraeg</a>
---
> <a class="leftnavbar" href="/Cat.asp?ln=cy&pn=public">Cymraeg</a>
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< <a href='text-only.asp?page=/Cat.asp%3Fpn%3Dprofessional'>
---
> <a href='text-only.asp?page=/Cat.asp%3Fpn%3Dpublic'>
Adrian Midgley wrote:
> One of the major mistakes in Web design is to impose a splash screen on
> your users[1].
>
> But the NICE website splash screen <URL:http://www.nice.nhs.uk>is
> different, because it offers users a choice - professional or public...
>
> Now that is a slightly unfashionable approach to dealing with the public,
> but I think we all know that there are some things that are best presented
> one way to the professions, and another way to people who think they have
> the disease in question. Being incurably curious I went to have a look...
>
> Select
> http://www.nice.org.uk/Cat.asp?pn=professional&cn=toplevel&ln=en
> and in another copy of your browser select
> http://www.nice.org.uk/Cat.asp?pn=public&cn=toplevel&ln=en
>
> and you tell me if you can find a single difference between the content of
> those pages.
>
> Clever Tracking
> ----------------------
> I thought that there might be some clever tracking, so that although one
> gets the same list of contents, on moving on from that to the detailed
> material of the site, one would find a different treatment accorded to the
> public and the (subset of the public who are) professionals.
>
> (One could do that by setting a cookie - not reliable but easy.
> One could do it by keeping the variable in the URL)
>
> There is no sign of that, either.
>
> It looks as though someone decided that there were to be two versions, so
> two versions were created, however actually presenting information in
> forms suitable to various users was too much like work, so there it sits.
>
> PDF
> -----
> And then, the content is in PDF.
> Yuck.
>
>
> The true and actual front page URL appears to be
> <URL:http://www.nice.org.uk/cat.asp?c=20> but can we rely on that staying
> constant?
>
>
>
>
> [1] Why splash screens are bad, in
> <URL:http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990530_comments.html>
>
>
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