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From: "Michael Kear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 12:03:31 +1000
>Now that the Olympics are under way, I've been looking at the web site at
>http://www.athens2004.com/ and it's pretty impressive. Does anyone know
>anything about what sort of beast powers it? Anything about how it's made
>up?
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>I know they've got huge sums of sponsors' money to spend on it, and all the
>input for scores comes from laptops at the venues, input by the officials
>and made available to other officials, media and the web site. The input
>for details of the athletes etc comes from their home country Olympic
>Committees through their own local clubs I guess, but for such a huge site,
>with such huge traffic, there must be a really big donk driving it. The
>site itself is pretty quiet about how it's built, but does anyone know
>anything about it? Or know where there's a description of how it's built?
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>I see that they've learned from the fiasco over the Sydney2000 site, where a
>disabled user sued the Sydney2000 Organising Committee just before the
>games started because he couldn't easily access the site using his screen
>reader, and they had to scramble with only a few weeks to go and recode the
>site. This site is not perfect in accessible terms, but its a light-year
>ahead of the Sydney2000 one. For example, all font sizes on this site are
>relative so users can use their own preferences to set character size.
>(Ctrl-wheel for windows users)
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>Anyway it's a matter of curiosity and interest rather than professional
>need. But I'd love to know more about what's under the hood of this site.
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>Anyone know?
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>Cheers
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>Mike Kear
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>Windsor, NSW, Australia
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>AFP Webworks
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>http://afpwebworks.com
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