Tall orders

Today I got a list of specs about a web portal. The portal concerns a huge state commission. I am not going to go into the details. Instead I will list some of the specifications of the project:

• We should build htm, not html, pages and JavaScript pages
• Each of the web pages should have a Strict and Transitional DOCTYPE
• The project includes a database which has been already built. We are to use this database but it will not be given to us.

The person who formed the list of specifications obviously wanted to show off a little so he also asked for:

• An accessible portal by all people with physical disadvantages
• Use of CSS
• Wildcard search (nevertheless he wanted an embedded Google search)

Obviously the customer wanted to put some tall orders. And he did it.