[sw-l] ITALY...Use FireFox web browser for SignPuddle

[Stephen Slevinski]

Hi Barbara,

Thanks for explaining your situation.  I will be able to help with the
distance (someday), but not the typing or desktop.

I'm excited for SignWriter Tiger.  I may even learn to type SignWriter
style.  Val mentioned something about practise drills.

Please pay special attention to the IMWA.  SignPuddle will soon display
individual sign language alphabets linked to an encyclepedia, based on
individual SignPuddle dictionaries.  The source will be English, but
translations will be possible.

Lots of people enjoy playing in the puddles, but it's not right for
everyone.

-Stephen

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From: owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
[mailto:owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu]On Behalf Of Barbara
Pennacchi
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 10:57 AM
To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
Subject: Re: [sw-l] ITALY...Use FireFox web browser for SignPuddle



On 28.04.05 16:04, Valerie Sutton wrote:

> Do NOT use Internet Explorer. It is not fast enough and the symbols do
> not always show up.

I'm on a Red Hat 9. I wouldn't dream of using ExploDer even if Bill gates
in person shows up at my doorstep to pay me my weight in gold or platinum
(wellll, I might accept the payment and then put a IE-like theme on my
Firefox to fool him... heh)

> The preferred web browser is FireFox, which is free to download on the
> web...(link for download is on the page above)
>
> So please tell your co-workers to download FireFox and use it...it is
> for Macintosh, Windows and Linux...

Don't worry, I've hid ExploDer in all their accounts on a WinXP box, here
at the institute and I've put firefox in a cd-rom containing all other
tools (QuickTime, SW-Edit and SW-java), inviting them to install it.

This almost 2 months ago.

The slowness of signPuddle is due not only to users' connection speed, but
also to the "distance" between user and server. You have to remember that
internet is mostly a huge race of servers passing back and forth packets
of information, with varying degrees of speed and reliability. My computer
isn't directly and physically connected to www.signbank.org. Nor to any
Rome-based server outside of my LAN. But the speed of loading web pages
from italian web sites tends to be slightly higher to that of US-based web
sites, if the respective ISPs are roughly the same in terms of
connectivity and efficiency.

have to run, now. again. *sigh*

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