From reciproc@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca Sat Feb 12 11:41:48 2000
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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 12:41:48 -0700 (MST)
From: reciproc@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
Subject: Re: New official web pages are up

> Well I finished uploading the pages, and have done a cursory check, so I 
> invite the Lojban community to take a look at www.lojban.org

.i'e Good work! :) I especially appreciate that the site immediately
explains what Lojban is.

> My own observations are
> - browsing with Netscape seems to work fine
> - on my machine at least, Microsoft IE chooses some truly awful default 
> fonts which exaggerate the size differences between different type sizes 
> far more than I intended. I don't know if this is my local settings or the 
> way IE works in general, since I seldom use IE. The smallest font size, 
> which I intended for footnote type stuff, comes out unreadably small. This 
> is not the case for Netscape.

Looks good in NetPositive (BeOS' browser) and Lynx (text-only), too.
However, navigating is a bit slow because of the way almost everything is
in the "Lojban File Server Roadmap" page. There are also some odd
artifacts I see using Lynx, but I think these are caused by my telnet
client rather than the web site.

> The main problem I see is that frames are not working as I intended them 
> to, and I think rather than debug this myself, I will let someone else tell 
> me how to fix it since several of you know this stuff far better than I 
> do. Clicking on a link in the frame is opening a new window, and clicking 
> on a link in the body is causing the loaded page to take up the whole 
> screen, losing the frame. My intent in either case was to preserve the 
> frame (opening a new window seems acceptable if not what I intended).

Your problem is that you specify the target as "_blank". This should be
changed to "Frame2". Then it'll all work perfectly.

> oh - the software/parser directory is not as advertised, and we need to 
> await John Cowan uploading the current files as stated in the roadmap - 
> what is actually there is the pre-refgrammar parser. The stuff in the main 
> software directory including the version of the parser there should be current.

On the topic of software, would it be possible to post source code to some
or all of the programs listed, so that those of us who don't run Windows
won't be left out?

co'omi'e xarmuj.