Adding the ALT and TITLE attributes to the IMG tag to tell you the country would be nice!
<img src="flags/ie.png" alt="$COUNTRY" title="$COUNTRY"> Poor old Antarctic explorers, BOINCing in their space time :) And what about the poor old Bankers in the Isle of Man who have led the world into financial crisis, those guys BOINC too! ...LOL John. On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:41 PM, David Anderson <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm going to stick with just the famfamfam flags. > > No flag shown for "None" or "International": > These people don't necessarily like the United Nations, > and may reject nationalism and flags entirely. > > -- David > > John 37309 wrote: > >> OK attached to this email is a zipped package with the following 6 flags; >> un for United Nations, GIF and PNG >> aq for Antartica, GIF and PNG >> im for Isle of Man, GIF and PNG >> All flags are 16x11 pix >> Any more flags needed, let me know! >> John. >> >> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Richard Haselgrove < >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> That's fine - congratulations on getting it this far. But I know, >> from personal experience, how easy it is for minor errors to creep >> in when cross-referencing lists by eye. >> My role in the commercial software I mentioned was effectively that >> of 'sweeper' - performing an independent final check before the >> datasets were sent for mastering, duplication and distribution. So I >> know the techniques - everything you saw in my previous post was >> done by bulk data manipulation and database matching. As I found >> myself saying repeatedly yesterday, "if you're going to do something >> at all, do it properply": hence the proof-read. >> I think it would be best if you, John, could go back to the >> original >> developers of famfamfam (since you made the link in the first >> place), and ask that images for IM, AQ and UN (conveniently >> unallocated) be added to the archive. That way, future BOINC >> projects can follow the installation instructions, and collect a >> single comprehensive archive - if the instruction are "get the >> archive, and add three odd single images", projects will mess up or >> not bother. >> [ IM has a flag - click the link on the Wikipedia page. AQ doesn't, >> so perhaps your UN image could be duplicated there ] >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> *From:* John 37309 <mailto:[email protected]> >> *To:* Richard Haselgrove <mailto:[email protected]> >> *Cc:* David Anderson <mailto:[email protected]> ; BOINC Dev >> Mailing List <mailto:[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Friday, June 12, 2009 2:21 PM >> *Subject:* Re: [boinc_dev] Add country to forum profile >> >> Richard, >> It was I "hand-wrote-out" the two letter code for each country. >> I tried to cross reference the country codes from the official >> iso 3166-2 codes. The countries listed in the boinc code seem to >> be unique, they don't match the iso list of codes, they were >> taken from some CIA website. In the boinc list countries, there >> are countries listed that are not officially listed by iso or >> the international community. >> I did my best, but yes, you are correct in all the >> corrections >> you suggested. I searched the iso 3166-2 codes for words like >> "Gaza" and "Virgin" and when there was no country listed >> containing the word, i guessed! Yes, i possibly made errors in >> my dicisions about world political borders. >> If any flags are needed, i can make identical flags for any >> country that match the famfamfam flags. I have the >> image template made! >> The UN Flag; >> http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n46/john502/un-1.png >> http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n46/john502/un.gif >> John. >> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
