Comments on: An Event Apart, Boston http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2008/an-event-apart-boston/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:32:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bruce http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2008/an-event-apart-boston/comment-page-1/#comment-698181 Bruce Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:48:27 +0000 http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/index.php/?p=483#comment-698181 @JC Because I don't read Sinhala, I can't understand what you wish Opera to do that it isn't already doing. (I've compared Opera 10.63 with the latest Firefox beta and to my untutored eyes, they look very similar). Can you explain further? @JC

Because I don’t read Sinhala, I can’t understand what you wish Opera to do that it isn’t already doing. (I’ve compared Opera 10.63 with the latest Firefox beta and to my untutored eyes, they look very similar).

Can you explain further?

]]> By: JC Ahangama http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2008/an-event-apart-boston/comment-page-1/#comment-697650 JC Ahangama Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:21:04 +0000 http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/index.php/?p=483#comment-697650 Two years have gone by since you wrote this. So, I hope and prey that you'd get to read this comment. Most of people of your caliber live on the side of the Latin script. If everything seems good with them, then everything is great. However, Unicode and the countries concerned ruined chances for Indic to get a happy presence on the web. I tried an experiment on Indic (and still trying to get USPTO to patent it): 1. transliterate into ISO-8859-1 2. Make an orthographic smartfont. The result is illustrated with my quick and dirty font at two web sites. Unfortunately, Opera does not support ligatures to view them in it. (I blocked out all but 4 browsers that support CSS3 'text-rendering' rule. So please use either Firefox or Safari to understand what the web sites show.): http://www.lovatasinhala.com/ http://www.ahangama.com/ (Wordpress blog) This is Sinhala that includes Sanskrit. I use a keyboard layout adopted from QWERTY -- very intuitive. @font-family downloads the font. All Indic could be done like this. The advantage of using transliterated formats is that it makes it so much easier to type these languages, encouraging regular users to use their languages on the computer. Would you care to write back to me? Regards by fan. JC Two years have gone by since you wrote this. So, I hope and prey that you’d get to read this comment.

Most of people of your caliber live on the side of the Latin script. If everything seems good with them, then everything is great.

However, Unicode and the countries concerned ruined chances for Indic to get a happy presence on the web. I tried an experiment on Indic (and still trying to get USPTO to patent it):
1. transliterate into ISO-8859-1
2. Make an orthographic smartfont.

The result is illustrated with my quick and dirty font at two web sites. Unfortunately, Opera does not support ligatures to view them in it. (I blocked out all but 4 browsers that support CSS3 ‘text-rendering’ rule. So please use either Firefox or Safari to understand what the web sites show.):

http://www.lovatasinhala.com/
http://www.ahangama.com/ (WordPress blog)

This is Sinhala that includes Sanskrit. I use a keyboard layout adopted from QWERTY — very intuitive. @font-family downloads the font. All Indic could be done like this. The advantage of using transliterated formats is that it makes it so much easier to type these languages, encouraging regular users to use their languages on the computer.

Would you care to write back to me?

Regards by fan.

JC

]]> By: Matt Machell http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2008/an-event-apart-boston/comment-page-1/#comment-521714 Matt Machell Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:25:08 +0000 http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/index.php/?p=483#comment-521714 That gut feeling, it's still pretty accurate from my experience. I've been teaching occasional courses in Standards and Semantics, and people are keen to learn, but they're far outside the ALA / conference circuit loop. That gut feeling, it’s still pretty accurate from my experience. I’ve been teaching occasional courses in Standards and Semantics, and people are keen to learn, but they’re far outside the ALA / conference circuit loop.

]]> By: Todd http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2008/an-event-apart-boston/comment-page-1/#comment-521687 Todd Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:21:37 +0000 http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/index.php/?p=483#comment-521687 Well, I consider it a good thing for your guidance, because when I started using CC's, the company I worked for was using an absurd amount of internal stylesheets and so I was faced with either, "keep doing what has been done, or if you find a better way, do it." Hopefully you'll be back next year and we'll get a picture together, I meant to get one with you before AEA ended. Then we can have a few beers also. ;) Well, I consider it a good thing for your guidance, because when I started using CC’s, the company I worked for was using an absurd amount of internal stylesheets and so I was faced with either, “keep doing what has been done, or if you find a better way, do it.”

Hopefully you’ll be back next year and we’ll get a picture together, I meant to get one with you before AEA ended. Then we can have a few beers also. ;)

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