Re: TAU website and information

> > 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>


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