old version of SignPuddle

[Vanessa Jones]

Sounds great!  Thanks!

Vanessa J. :-)

(Nice to meet you on the SW list also :-)

On 10/25/07, Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org> wrote:
>
> SignWriting List
> October 25, 2007
>
> Hello Vanessa, Honza and everyone -
> Thank you for this feedback...and I am glad to meet you on the
> SignWriting List, Vanessa...;-)
>
> There are several things we can do. First, Steve and I just decided
> that we will disable the SignMaker part of the old SignPuddle 1.0, so
> that no one can enter any new signs into the old SignPuddle 1.0 but
> will still be able to look up signs, copy signs, and customize them
> etc...working with only those signs that are already there...
>
> Another idea someday is to take SignPuddle 1.0 off the web
> completely, and replace it with a directory page referring the person
> to the new SignPuddle 1.5.
>
> When we first posted SignPuddle 1.5, we tried to transfer all the
> current signs that were in the old SignPuddle 1.0, into the files in
> SignPuddle 1.5., but there was one exception....the ASL SignPuddle
> 1.0 has a lot of signs that were pasted in as graphics, because they
> were transferred from our old software SignWriter DOS. Before we
> transferred the signs to the new SignPuddle 1.5, I tried to re-write
> those, and never finished, and the result was that the ASL dictionary
> in SignPuddle 1.5 is different than the ASL dictionary in 1.0...
>
> There are a lot of mis-spellings of signs in both ASL SignPuddles, so
> someday we need to have a good read-only ASL Puddle that is viewable
> but not editable...we are not there yet...so for now, viewing the old
> SignPuddle 1.0 without adding signs is a first step...
>
> Do you agree?
>
> Steve said he can do that job this week, so we will announce it when
> SignMaker has been disabled in 1.0...
>
> Meanwhile I would like to encourage all of you to always enter on
> this web page:
>
> SignPuddle 1.5 Directory
> http://www.SignBank.org/signpuddle
>
> grin...
>
> Val ;-)
>
> ------------
>
>
>
> On Oct 25, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Vanessa Jones wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I can definitely understand wanting to ensure new signs are added
> > to the new puddle.  I accidentally added some new ones to the old
> > puddle a while ago and then had the joy of redoing them in the new
> > puddle.  However, sometimes I have found that the new puddle does
> > not have all the signs I remember in the old puddle, either signs I
> > added or signs I used often.  So I have used the old sign puddle as
> > a reference tool for remembering how I wrote a sign if for some
> > reason I cannot find it in the new puddle.  Is there a way to have
> > the resource of the old sign puddle dictionary online without
> > having the option to adding signs to that dictionary?  Maybe a link
> > can be disabled?  Just wondering! :-)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Vanessa J.
> >
> > On 10/25/07, Valerie Sutton <signwriting at mac.com> wrote:
> > SignWriting List
> > October 25, 2007
> >
> > Hello Honza and Everyone -
> > I have been thinking of taking SignPuddle 1.0 down from the web
> > too...The other day, someone had bookmarked the old SignPuddle in
> > their web browser, and they started to add signs to the old
> > SignPuddle instead of going to the new SignPuddle Directory page and
> > clicking on the flag to get to the new SignPuddle...
> >
> > SignPuddle 1.5 Directory Page
> > http://www.SignBank.org/signpuddle
> >
> > We then had to help them transfer their signs from the old to the
> > new...
> >
> > So if everyone else is in agreement, I will take down SignPuddle 1.0,
> > but save it on my hard drive in case someone needs it...
> >
> > And yes, I will try to create some kind of a link, linking them back
> > to the SignPuddle 1.5 Directory Page...so they can choose their
> > country properly ;-)
> >
> > Meanwhile, please tell your friends and co-workers to always go to
> >
> > http://www.SignBank.org/signpuddle
> >
> > to choose their country...
> >
> > Thanks for informing us, Honza -
> >
> > Val ;-)
> >
> > -----------------
> >
> >
> >
> > Honza from the Czech Republic wrote:
> > > I think, old version of SignPuddle (1.0) should not be aviavable,
> > > cause new version have much more features and can be confusing
> > > using old ones, cause nobody update it this days..
> > > and I think there should be written it is old version and added
> > > link to new version ( 1.5) of SignPuddle of the same language.
> > >
> > > thanks
> > > Probably the difference between old and new version is not very big
> > > for other languages, but big for ours, cause old version dont
> > > support czech letters and spaces.. etc.. you know best features of
> > > the new version.
> > >
> > > Honza
> >
> >
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