[sw-l] SignPuddle glitch in Firefox

[Charles Butler]

I have found a bizarre little glitch.

If I'm in IE, I can open a window in SignPuddle, save
the graphic, and then go directly to a yahoo email,
and drop that graphic into the yahoo email or into a
MS Word document, but if I go to Firefox, I can do
neither without saving the graphic onto my hard drive
and then importing it.  IE makes SignPuddle work as
drag-and-drop in both Yahoo and Word, but not in
Firefox.

Any clue as to what is happening?

Charles Butler


--- Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org> wrote:

> SignWriting List
> June 23, 2005
>
> > Harmonalbert at AOL.COM wrote:
> > Do you have a downloadable version of your Sign
> Maker program??  I
> > downloaded a copy of your Signwriting program, but
> it doesn't work
> > to create signs, it works only to copy signs from
> the dictionary
> > into a document.
>
> Val answers:
>
> Hello Jerry!
> If you go to our downloads page:
>
> SignWriting Downloads
> http://www.SignWriting.org/downloads
>
> you will find a lot of programs! SignWriter DOS,
> Java, Tiger and
> Python are all typing programs for complete
> documents typed in
> SignWriting...SignBank is a dictionary database with
> the SymbolBank
> database there too...SW Edit is not my program. It
> was developed in
> Brazil...but you can download it from that web
> page....so there are
> many to choose from!
>
> SignMaker is a part of SignPuddle, and is a
> web-based program
> developed by Steve Slevinski...So Steve?...If you
> have anything that
> is downloadable I will be happy to link to it, in
> our downloads web
> page...;-)
>
> But Jerry, I believe at this time, SignMaker is only
> for the
> web...And your description of the program above, in
> your question,
> must be referring to SignBank? have you tried
> SignWriter? It is the
> best for really typing SignWriting and is used all
> over the world...
>
>
> > I found one thing that does seem to work like your
> sign maker BUT,
> > I don't speak Spanish. it is your SW-Edit program.
> also, that SW
> > program could use more handshapes (unless I don't
> know how to get
> > to them all). Could you ask the programmer to
> translate the
> > commands into English, or send me the translations
> in an E-mail so
> > that I can work with the program???
>
> SW Edit is in Portuguese, from Brazil. And it is not
> being further
> developed, so there is no programmer to turn to.
> However, I believe
> there is a way to switch to English in the
> program...I will check
> that...
>
>
> > Even though I am in college to learn interpreting,
> I do plan to
> > learn what signs you need in your puddle and
> contribute some
> > whenever I can. BUT, it would be easier for me if
> I could work off-
> > line then send my feeble efforts to the sign
> puddle.(only one phone
> > line, and my wife likes to have access).
>
> Right. SignPuddle really needs broadband. So if you
> ever get
> broadband you will have a better experience.
>
>
> > Also, how do you incorporate "mouth morphemes"
> (CHA,   PO,   PAH,
> > etc.) into your signwriting system??
> > All told(according to a videotape I have on the
> subject) there are
> > 54 of these morphemes and some of them require the
> tongue to move
> > rapidly either up&down   or  L&R  in order to get
> the proper meaning.
>
> This is a different subject and I can answer that
> later today...
>
> >
> > Lastly, I have Internet explorer on my machine,
> BUT, I also have
> > Firefox as an alternate browser. Would this create
> a problem? I
> > have noticed that when I try to get onto your Sign
> Maker program to
> > practice a little bit, I can't get on.
>
> It is best that you use Firefox. It is faster and
> SignPuddle was
> designed for Firefox...
>
> Thanks for your interest and questions, Jerry!
>
> Val ;-)
>
>
>
> Valerie Sutton
> Sutton at SignWriting.org
>
> 1. SignWritingSite
> http://www.SignWriting.org
> Read & Write Sign Languages
>
> 2. SignBankSite
> http://www.SignBank.org
> Sign Language Dictionaries
>
> 3. DanceWritingSite
> http://www.DanceWriting.org
> Read & Write Dance
>
> 4. MovementWritingSite
> http://www.MovementWriting.org
> Read & Write Movement & Gesture
>
> 5. SymbolBank On The Web
> www.MovementWriting.org/symbolbank
> Archive For All Symbols
>
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