On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Alexander Maryanovsky wrote: > > >>2. Is there an alternative I can offer? Is there at all such a thing as > >>HTML compliant Hebrew webpage which is displayed properly by all > >>browsers? Is there a format which can contain Hebrew and is supported by > >>various applications on multiple platforms? > > > >Design a new site for them. The other questions depends on other things. > > 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. > > 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?
HTML 4.0 has quite a decent Hebrew support (except for 'align=right' and 'align=left', which have no bidi seamtics). Browsers that support it: * Explorer, as of ~4.0 or 5.0 in a more decent manner * mozilla, as of around 0.9.1 (Netscape 6.1 ?, galeon, chmera, k-meleon, etc.) * konqueror, as of ~2.0 * the upcoming opera 7? Browsers that don't support it are: * Opera * Older versions of netscape/mozilla (espacially on big-endian machines) * lynx and probably all other text-mode browsers * browsers in most PDAs (?) For all the above on X there are some workarounds that give some resonable resuklts in some cases, (e.g: lynx -dump| bidiv) but you can assume most people should have an access to a browser with dcent Hebrew support (Font setup is usually simple to solvable problem.) -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= 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]
