OK, To be perfectly honest, I have always felt the Edict page layout (not the first, "cover page" but rather the later pages (which are all from the same...
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Jeroen Hoek
jeroenhoek
May 7, 2008 12:57 am
... Better, although I'd drop the font-size another notch to the level of the examples. "Copyright" and "Donations" are right next to each other, visually...
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Jim Breen
breen_jim
May 7, 2008 1:54 am
... That's why I'm discussing a process of decluttering. What I'm planning is a customization option in which users can drop the features they don't want. ... ...
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hiz--dic@...
May 7, 2008 2:39 am
Hi everybody, i'm not sure how to use the submission link for issues like the following: Two kanji that to my knowledge are used pretty much interchangeably...
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Jim Breen
breen_jim
May 7, 2008 2:59 am
... I have it down to 0.9em now. I don't know what you are seeing for the examples as it's based on the font size you have chosen ...
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Jim Breen
breen_jim
May 7, 2008 3:37 am
This posting has badly baked Japanese. It's arrived as "ISO-8859-1" coding. I'll reconstruct as I go.. ... I suspect the second is a $BJQ49%_%9(B. It's the...
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Stuart McGraw
smcgr4444
May 7, 2008 3:40 am
... Got it, thank you. (Generally I am very cautious about visiting that page since what I intend to be 5 minutes can easily turn into 5 hours. ;-)...
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hiz--dic@...
May 7, 2008 6:47 am
Hi again, ... Oops, i recycled an old message, which turns out to have been in ISO-8859-1 encoding - sorry about that. m(_ _)m ... I bet. :-) ... Many thanks -...
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Mark Burns
markburnsemail
May 7, 2008 7:23 am
How about opening up the design to the users? If you could add css style tags to all the elements, then you can separate content and layout and that way...
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Jeroen Hoek
jeroenhoek
May 7, 2008 8:44 am
(replace [ ] with < >) I think Mark has a good point here, but it would require a rebuild of the existing HTML to make use of the appropriate tags from a...
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Stuart McGraw
smcgr4444
May 7, 2008 1:29 pm
... Did this one get missed? 2083250 $B%&%)%7%e%l%C%H(B toilet seat with bidet functions (Toto brandname, trans: wash toilet) Also... Seq 1010090: Duplicate...
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Dennis Schrader
jpnthailand
May 7, 2008 5:58 pm
Re: "One of the old EDICT-based sites was "JEDI" at Notre Dame in Japan. It did EDICT lookups and nothing else, and had a loyal following. When they shut it...
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Dennis Schrader
jpnthailand
May 7, 2008 7:32 pm
Before the end of this coming weekend, I will submit 2, maybe 3, hopefully more "user friendly" and less cluttered Edict interfaces. I will do so in such a way...
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Jim Breen
breen_jim
May 7, 2008 11:18 pm
... Yes, and about 10 others. ... All fixed now. Thanks Jim -- Jim Breen Honorary Senior Research Fellow Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash...
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Jim Breen
breen_jim
May 12, 2008 1:47 am
... This pretty much sums up my views too. Certainly if I ever get to doing a rebuild og WWWJDIC from the bottom up, I'd decouple content from presentation and...
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Mark Burns
markburnsemail
May 12, 2008 6:29 am
... of ... HTTP ... Netscape ... AFAIK this is happening already for static pages. I don't control the Apache server; I'm just one of the users (albeit the...
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Jim Breen
breen_jim
May 12, 2008 12:13 pm
The expanded options for customizing WWWJDIC by removing unwanted links, etc. from the results page is ready for testing. The page to select the options and...
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Paul Blay
blay_paul
May 12, 2008 12:29 pm
Hi Jim, ... Trying it out now. ... The one item I can think of for a 'wish-list' addition is remembering previously chosen settings on the customize page. In...
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Jim Breen
breen_jim
May 13, 2008 12:15 am
... It's on my wish-list too. It's rather a large task, as it means going from a static HTML file to CGI-generated page, where the program has to read and...
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Jim Breen
breen_jim
May 13, 2008 12:40 am
... I get that impression too. That module is Perl, of course. The page at: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_deflate.html seems to say it is a standard...
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Darren Cook
darren@...
May 13, 2008 1:11 am
... PHP also does the compression itself, so I agree that apache's own compression probably only applies to static html: ...
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Jim Breen
breen_jim
May 15, 2008 4:55 am
The changes to WWWJDIC layput and customizaion are now "live". Cheers Jim -- Jim Breen Honorary Senior Research Fellow Clayton School of Information...
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Jeroen Hoek
jeroenhoek
May 15, 2008 8:25 am
The new version left me without a menubar and G/GI/W/S/A links before I even touched the customisation page. Is it defaulting to "disable" for users with a...
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Jim Breen
breen_jim
May 15, 2008 12:09 pm
... Very odd. It should have been exactly the same, as I just extended one of the parameters..... Yep, I goofed....... OK, it should now be defaulting to...
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Dennis Schrader
jpnthailand
May 15, 2008 3:51 pm
I could be wrong; if so, please forgive. My entering *"$B=t9q(B"* yields 10 results but more importantly and with only a modest adjustment down of fontsize a...
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Jim Breen
breen_jim
May 15, 2008 11:06 pm
... Font size is in your hands. I don't set a font size for the display of entries - you do that. In Firefox the default font size is set in Edit Preferences/ ...
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Dennis Schrader
jpnthailand
May 16, 2008 1:53 am
Hats off to Jim and a big ole Dunce Cap for me. I just have never taken time to change the Edict Display --- nor have I ever seen a website where such was...
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Jim Breen
breen_jim
May 16, 2008 4:04 am
... [..] ... I have experimented with a two-column format, and I must say it doesn't seem too bad at all. Try it in the testbed at: ...
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hiz--dic@...
May 17, 2008 1:26 am
... Hi Jim, trying out the new site layout. Tried a customization via URL and was preented the following URL for my bookmarks: ...
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Dennis Schrader
jpnthailand
May 17, 2008 1:42 am
Wow, we all know how fussy and critical I can be; but this testbed 2-column version (http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic2.cgi?1MUJkoujou) is...
