UPDATE.HTM
May 13 2007 4colE.pdf was revised to correct some formatting problems. http://www.execulink.com/~dthomp75/2007/REVIEW/4colE.pdf
The filename has not been changed so if you have the old one you probably wish to overwrite it with this one.
APRIL 13 2007
Downloadable self-installing executable for Windows Concordance to the 1975 Abridgement now available from Concordances => Other text search tools menu. A number of small tweaks to the Concordances
APRIL 4 2007
Ok … IE 7 WORKS NOW! … there is a separate Sub-Urtext Concordance for IE 7 which handles all the original folio access requests via JavaScript floating window, instead of the Concordance frame. The Table of Contents also uses JavaScript in the SubUrtext and the HLC 6-vol.
March 29 2007
Ooops … that didn’t quite work right …. It’s all back to the IE7 mode until I can figure something else out.
March 29 2007
Restored full functionality for users of Firefox, Opera and IE 6 browsers. We still find IE 6 is the fastest. A new menu hierarchy diverts IE 7 users to modified code, the original code is still available for those with browsers that can use it.
Please mail 40 wet noodles to Bill Gates with advice to flagellate himself in penance for screwing up the Internet. And to think people have to PAY for the privilege of replacing a stable OS and browser with a supremely buggy one! And they wonder why so many refuse to pay for this “privilege”!!! :)
In the anti-war movement people would ask, rhetorically, “what if they held a war an nobody came?” I was just musing, “what if they introduced a new browser and OS and nobody used it?” That sexy new Vista computer IS faster if you run XP on it! :-)
The problem may be that XP is so good there aren’t many strong reasons to “upgrade” and Vista is so far so bad that there are a whole lot of good reasons NOT to!
March 27 2007
IE 7 now works with Concordance
The bizarre thing is that we didn’t figure out there WAS a problem with IE 7 until yesterday. Well, we knew some people were having problems, but we didn’t trace it to IE 7. Data would show up in the wrong frames in the Concordances due to a severe BUG in Microsoft’s newly released, and clearly unready for publication, software. That BUG means the html control codes which tell the browser which frame to use are not recognized unless they are in the header. Thus the html code we used which used all frames, putting some data here, and some there, doesn’t work and apparently can’t be fixed because IE 7, unlike all other browsers tested, doesn’t allow any html file to use more than one frame!! Which leads to the question, precisely what’s the point of having more than one “frame” if the programmer is not allowed to use more than one!
For generic concordance functions, there is a fix because different html files are in fact used to write each frame, but for our add-on tool to put original manuscript pages up side by side with the copy, there appears not to be any fix.
As a work-around until IE 7 is fixed, we’ve switched to using JavaScript pop-up windows to display “original manuscript pages” in the Sub-Urtext Concordance. This is not as good as using a frame, as the latter allows one to easily jump between two frames, to compare line by line. That IS still possible with the pop-up but it is nowhere near so convenient. Instead of instantly appearing in the adjacent frame full size, the manuscript image now appears in a pop-up window and the user has to click on it to make it large enough to read.
The alternative to this “fix” was to just inform people that it only works with every browser in the known universe EXCEPT IE 7!
My apologies for this and I do hope a better solution can be found soon.
March 21 … “Product Reviews” refined further
March 19 … reworked “Product Reviews” … much new info, new “Replica Comparison” of CHLC, one that is up to date and reflects the current state of the document, and a copy of the Replica file itself for download March 16 … ok, the above is completely revised and substantially enhanced. The IP Primer, in particular, is expanded and substantially clarified.
March 14, 2007
You’re going to find this rather amazing …. 15 minute Audio … Go to READING ROOM => Iambic Pentameter => Mirrored Rhymes => Lee reads Seven Rules for Decision …. Multi-media … Utterly amazing
March 12, 2007-
DOWNLOADABLES – For the CIMS(1) and CIMS(2) and CHLC now accessible through product reviews. That’s right, the WHOLE BOOK, or at least the Text portion, for each, in downloadable pdfs. Believe it or not! ;-)
March 10 2007
“How do they Stack Up?” and Raphael’s reviews of the five editions … Shopper’s Guide … finally added