On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, guy keren wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > Guy, you should be able to look at the site and operate it even if it were > > logical Hebrew. After all, the interface and some of the postings would be > > in English. However, sticking to Visual Hebrew willunnecessarily > > complicate the code, so I don't think it's a high priority. > > i agree about 'complicate'. not about 'unnecessarily'. linux distros don't > come with proper hebrew by default, and thus the question is valid - how > many _linux users_ can actually view logical hebrew? not how many can > install something to allow them to view that, but how many actually can? > > > Most modern browsers support Logical Hebrew very well. I don't know about > > lynx, but like I said, I would not recommend anyone to interact with the > > Hebrew posts with lynx. > > i want to be able to _read_ them. not _interact_ with them via lynx. > > > > oh, please, don't. visual hebrew is here to stay! :) > > > > I beg your pardon? Visual Hebrew is an inherently broken "standard", > > who case if its defined as a standard of not. i'm talking about de-facto > standards. > > > which never makes too much sense. It will complicate the code, and make > > for annoying bugs at the user-end. > > as someone mentioned - all you'll need is to coverthe text with a call to > a function that will handle all the hebrew issues. i don't care if the > visual hebrwe code gets somewhat broken on the screen - as long as it gets > there, and the user _can_ read it with some brains effort. it doesn't have > to be_perfect_. >
And what if it gets in the way of adding html tags to text by users who post articles/comments? > > I say that we first implement logical > > Hebrew, and only then, if at all support Visual one. Guy - make your > > choice of Mozilla, Netscape 6.x, Konqueror, MSIE and perhaps some other > > browsers that I'm not aware of. > > mozilla - too slow. > netscape 6.x - too slow. > konqueror - too slow. > MSIE - not available for linux. > netscape 4 + biditext - looks like its crashing my netscape 4 here, for > some unknown reason. at least the biditext that comes with r2l. Bug reports to the proper place would be appreciated. maybe this is related to the fact that netscape is being run with a different glibc? Not here (not with netscape 4/linux and not with netscape 6.1/solaris) -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives available at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
