>>Email who? The guys who make the website? They're not likely to care, >>having designed and put up such horror. >>University officials? Do you know anyone specific who might care and have >>the power to do something about it? > >Yes the guys who make the site. Check with other students if they care and >show the webmaster that people really >want a change.
I will... I just don't actually *know* any other students yet, except friends on other faculties :-) >So? Why won't you try to talk to them ? I will... I was looking for pointers from the list in the meanwhile. Pointers on how to approach this issue. Pointers on which software to suggest and which arguments to use. >Hmm, it is possible (Writing reversed hebrew, some dir properties, meta >tags, etc). >But some browsers doesn't support hebrew because of encodings and >environment (console?). Won't browsers that display Hebrew correctly display it reversed then? Obviously I was referring only to browsers that have some level of Hebrew (Bidi) support, not lynx. >No clue. Why won't you d/l this file to a floopy & check the file on some1 >elses computer as a temporary >solution ? That's a rather balky solution, but once I have access to the computer lab in the University, I'll be able to do that there... Alexander Maryanovsky. At 16:51 27.09.2002 +0200, Eliran wrote: >Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: > >>Email who? The guys who make the website? They're not likely to care, >>having designed and put up such horror. >>University officials? Do you know anyone specific who might care and have >>the power to do something about it? > >Yes the guys who make the site. Check with other students if they care and >show the webmaster that people really >want a change. > >>There's not much to design. All you need is plain simple, static HTML... >>There are no forms to submit, no elaborate menus, just plain information. >>At most, a table is required to display class schedule. > >So? Why won't you try to talk to them ? > >>What do the other questions depend on? I'm just not sure at all whether >>it's possible to write an HTML page with Hebrew and have it show up >>properly (not reversed) on all browsers... I'm not an HTML guru, I just >>know the basic stuff and would need to look up the spec to write a table >>:-) I'm also not aware of a file format which handles Hebrew *and* >>English properly (for pure Hebrew, you could use plain text)... Is there >>such a thing? > >Hmm, it is possible (Writing reversed hebrew, some dir properties, meta >tags, etc). >But some browsers doesn't support hebrew because of encodings and >environment (console?). > >>Like I said, it doesn't display properly in OpenOffice or AbiWord. Is >>koffice worth trying at this point? Would StarOffice (which I don't own) >>be any different from OpenOffice on this issue? > >No clue. Why won't you d/l this file to a floopy & check the file on some1 >elses computer as a temporary >solution ? > >-- ><a href="http://www.rootshell.be/~eg";>Eliran G</a> > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
