SignPuddle glitch in Firefox

[Kimberley A. Shaw]

Hello all:
this is driving me nuts, too! (as well as holding up production of my
Stokoe index)  :-(
Any good way to work around it?
Best,
Kim from Boston


sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu on Thursday, June 23, 2005 at 6:00 PM -0500
wrote:
>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
>> 
>> Deaf Action Committee for SignWriting
>> Center For Sutton Movement Writing
>> an educational nonprofit organization
>> Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA
>> tel: 858-456-0098....fax: 858-456-0020
>> 
>> 
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