[sw-l] Email from SignPuddle - Long

[Valerie Sutton]

SW-L at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
SignWriting List
August 2, 2004

Dear SW List, Paul, Stephen, Stefan and Stuart!
Thank you for your excellent explanations of what is happening with
SignWriting Email from SignPuddle! It is all true ;-))

Someday, email in SignWriting will have fewer problems, but we must
remember, how lucky we are to have ANYTHING! smile...

And we can send the email in other signed languages too....not just
American signs.....just as long as the signs you need are already saved
in the SignPuddle dictionary for your country...

Val ;-)


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On Aug 2, 2004, at 7:48 AM, Paul Cowley wrote:

> Greetings all.
>
>  I have a few minutes to breathe here in Aylmer, Ontario, Canada It is
> a holiday up here. I will make a brief attempt at solving this
> situation.  It is complex and I may oversimplify for "some techy
> types" but it is at the heart of the problems SW-L List members are
> experiencing when trying to deal with graphics. Please read below the
> quote.
>
>  At 09:58 AM 8/2/2004, you wrote:
>
> Hi Val and list members,
>   
> I can read and understand ;-))  your sw-email - but as soon as I get
> offline there are only red squares with the words .. ;-((
>   
> I am working with Microsoft - Outlook 2000
>   
> Has anybody got an idea how to solve this problem? 
>   
> Stefan ;-))
>
>  The specific reference above is related to sending an email message
> written in HTML. Before you start jumping up and down, denying YOU
> wrote a message in HTML, the original message was sent from the PUDL
> site. The Site encodes messages in HTML
>
>  If you are reading an email in SignWriting from the PUDL Site you are
> basically reading an HTML Document (Web Page) in your mail reader. In
> the situation above Outlook 2000. This mail reader is capable of
> reading (decoding HTML) and what you are seeing in the email is NOT
> really what's written there. What you see is really a translation of
> the HTML code.
>
>  This is what was really written in the message referenced by Stephan:
>
>
> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=1>
>            <TBODY>
>            <TR>
>              <TD vAlign=top>
>                <CENTER><IMG alt=me
>               
> src="http://signbank.org/signpuddle/SGN-US/dict/sl/me.png"
>                align=middle border=0 NOSEND="1">
>
>  The second last line in the quotation above is the HTML code which
> references the "ME" Sign in SignWriting on the PUDL Site
>
>  The HTML code above is in the email but Stephan's Mail Reader,
> Outlook 2000, reads the code, translates it, and shows him the ME PNG
> file from the PUDL Site.
>
>  If I were to type in the URL indicated above on the next line, list
> members, with HTML enabled mail readers, will be able to see the ME
> PNG by clicking on the link. Try it if you like. 
>
> http://signbank.org/signpuddle/SGN-US/dict/sl/me.png
>
>
>
> Now back to Stephan's question. As long as Stephan is connected to the
> INTERNET his mail reader (Outlook 2000) will show him the ME PNG file.
>
>  If Stephan is not connected to the INTERNET, Outlook 2000 will
> attempt to translate the quoted HTML code above but will fail since
> his computer is not connected to the INTERNET. The code will simply be
> shown as a "Broken Link".
>
>  To verify this simply reconnect to the INTERNET, look at the message
> and the SignWriting will reappear. Its all magic.
>
>  I took the liberty of downloading the ME PNG to my computer and I can
> now imbed the image directly into this email. See below
>
> <image.tiff>
>
>
>
>  I have also attached the ME PNG to this email message and you should
> be able to see it but it will appear as an attachment.
>
>  Some email readers are not able to translate HTML code and all you
> get is "gibberish" see below.
>
>  <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=1>
>            <TBODY>
>            <TR>
>              <TD vAlign=top>
>                <CENTER><IMG alt=me
>               
> src="http://signbank.org/signpuddle/SGN-US/dict/sl/me.png"
>                align=middle border=0 NOSEND="1"> <IMG
>               
> src="http://signbank.org/signpuddle/SGN-US/dict/dot_a.png"
>                border=0 NOSEND="1">
>
>  _____
>  This has probably just further confused the issue for some people but
> may help others.
>
>  Contact me directly if you want more.
>
>   
>
>
>  Up Thumb, Paul Cowley
>  pcowley at amtelecom.net
>
> <407c4f7.jpg><me.png>