Website written in ASL

Adam Frost adam at FROSTVILLAGE.COM
Tue Apr 17 05:45:29 UTC 2007


I will have to play around with it. :-)

Adam

On 4/16/07, Valerie Sutton <signwriting at mac.com> wrote:
>
> Adam -
> Is there a way for you to give a little more time at the beginning
> and ending of the animated gif?...on my iMac, which is a fast
> computer, I see both signs but just barely...it is like the first one
> started too soon and I see the end of the first one, and then the
> second one...If you could put more frames at the beginning of the
> animated GIF so the person's computer has time to process it, then
> maybe the problem would go away...it needs a moment of nothing to get
> started and then the sign should start to move....I bet you can
> improve the animated GIF to start a little later...
>
> No matter what, kudos for trying this unique and valuable idea...
>
> Val ;-)
>
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> On Apr 16, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Adam Frost wrote:
>
> > Hmm. I am too. And you say that you don't seen the moving pictures?
> > Do you have gif animationed tuned off? (I know there is a way to do
> > that with Firefox, but I forget how.)
> >
> > Adam
> >
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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "Charles Butler" <chazzer3332000 at YAHOO.COM>
> > Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:13:21
> > To:sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> > Subject: Re: [sw-l] Website written in ASL
> >
> > I'm on an XP using Mozilla Firefox.
> >
> >
> > Adam Frost <icemandeaf at gmail.com> wrote: What browser and platform
> > are you using?
> >
> > Adam
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "Charles Butler"
> > Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:03:35
> > To:sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> > Subject: Re: [sw-l] Website written in ASL
> >
> > Okay, ah, I guess I just don't have an animator on my machine, so I
> > saw them frozen.
> >
> > Thanks.  I thought I was going crazy.
> >
> > Charles
> >
> >
> > Adam Frost  wrote: I see what you are saying. That is one of the
> > problems that I have with the picture right now. They are animated
> > gifs, so the go in a continuous cycle. I also can't control where
> > they start when you see it. So what happened was when you finally
> > saw the gif, it had cycled to the start of VILLAGE and not FROST.
> > So the SW is correct in the timing and in you case the signing was
> > not. :-)
> > Adam
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "Charles Butler"
> > Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:47:50
> > To:sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> > Subject: Re: [sw-l] Website written in ASL
> >
> > The picture that shows us has
> >
> > HANDS FORWARD - presumably FROST
> > THEN HOUSE.
> >
> > If SW is read top to bottom then what you have is
> >
> > FROST
> > HOUSE
> >
> > and what you sign is
> >
> > HOUSE
> > FROST
> >
> >
> > Adam Frost wrote: Charles,
> > I am not sure what you are refering to. Is it the writing itself or
> > the picture that shows up that you are saying has a problem with
> > the timing?
> > But be advised that this page is a work in progress. I am making
> > improvements as I can. (There are somethings that I know are not
> > right as of now.)
> >
> > Adam
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "Charles Butler"
> > Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:03:23
> > To:sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> > Subject: Re: [sw-l] Website written in ASL
> >
> > The only difficulty I have is that the SW for Frost Village seems
> > to not follow the rule of time order in whether something is top or
> > bottom.  There are two signs combined, one in which the flat hands
> > are out from the signer and one in which the signs are for house.
> >
> > I would write them with the House sign at the top as that is the
> > first sign in time.
> >
> > Charles
> >
> >
> > Valerie Sutton wrote: SignWriting List
> > April 16, 2007
> >
> > Adam Frost wrote:
> >> It is: http://www.frostvillage.com/asl/index.html
> >
> > Everyone -
> > Look at Adam's newly designed web site.... It is a work in progress,
> > and the progress is really exciting...
> >
> > When you visit this web page:
> >
> > http://www.frostvillage.com/asl/index.html
> >
> > Take your mouse, and place it gently over the SignWriting...
> >
> > A video pops up showing you the sign in ASL that is written there...
> >
> > It is really a brilliant idea, Adam, and I know this will become an
> > important way to teach SignWriting too...
> >
> > Try it everyone!
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