[Sw-l] Signwriting in mobile user interface

[Stephen E Slevinski Jr]

On 8/23/15 10:41 PM, Eduardo Trápani wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hope a video sheds some light on my idea about signwriting in  phones.
>
> FirefoxOS is an operating system for mobile devices that has been
> translated into many, many languages. And I would like to have it in
> LSU, Libras, ASL, ...
>
> What I did was add the languages (just ASL and Libras to the ones I
> already had) and translate the texts using FSW instead of sentences in
> other language. That and a slightly modified version of Signwriting Thin
> Viewer (it's awesome work Steve!) did the trick.
>
> https://vimeo.com/137097242

Hi Eduardo,

Thanks for the video.  It made me smile!

I'm glad you like the SignWriting Thin viewer.  It requires a 
SignWriting Icon Server to provide the server side SVG images.  The 
server on Wikimedia Labs is probably the best server to use.
http://swis.wmflabs.org

This is last years technology.  The new technology uses TrueType fonts 
and does not require server side SVG images.  This eliminates any visual 
delay and greatly reduces network communication.  For example, a large 
page of the ASL Wikipedia will require over 1 MB of images.  It will 
require only 30 KB of Formal SignWriting if the fonts are installed for 
the same page.

There are 2 fonts, available in the SignWriting 2010 Fonts project.
https://github.com/Slevinski/signwriting_2010_fonts

For Javascript programming, the SignWriting 2010 JavaScript library can 
easily transform FSW into either SVG or PNG.
https://github.com/Slevinski/sw10js

The minified file is less than 20 KB and includes a lot of additional 
functionality.
http://slevinski.github.io/sw10js/api.html


> There will be some issues along the way, for sure, but it can be done!
>
> Friendly, Eduardo.

Thanks for the inventive work.  I'm always surprised and excited by what 
you accomplish.

Regards,
-Steve

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