I've had a thought about how we might provide another way of looking at the images. If you could record each of the annotations as audio annotation, we could link each annotation to its audio file. We could then provide a multimedia presentation of each image, working through each category of annotations, zooming in on each annotation area and playing the audio for that area. I think this is quite practical, and it would be really cool. What do you think?
May 4, 2007
Checked the title bar display on IE6 and IE7, and they both show the same problem (the title is cut off halfway down, and the decorative bar below doesn't show).
Began by pruning some obsolete JavaScript code which was still there from the previous version of the layout (AssignIE6MenuHandler()). This didn't help, but it needed doing anyway.
Next, I tried commenting out the <hr id="HeaderBorder>, in case some of its oddities might be causing the problem -- we know IE can't handle <hr> tags with image content or min-height. However, that had no effect either. The problem seems to be with the CSS of the <h1> tag.
I tried removing the before and after pseudo-attributes -- again, IE doesn't support these -- but that made no difference.
Then I notices that a previous font-size declaration for <h1> set it at 190%, which was then overridden in the title bar CSS by 250%, marked !important. Thinking there might be some odd interaction between these, I commented out the first one. No effect.
Finally, I commented out the line vertical-align: middle;. That did the trick. It appears that when IE tries to align text to the middle, it projects it below the bottom of its bounding box, cutting it off half-way. The removal of that line didn't seem to make any difference to other browsers; I tested on Firefox, Opera, Konqueror and Safari. I've left the line commented out in the CSS, with an explanation. The site now looks reasonable on IE6 and IE7, although neither of them show the fleur-de-lys emblems or the row of decorative poultry below.
While testing on Safari, I noticed that the right-side fleur-de-lys is not spaced from the text, although the CSS code that places it specifies a space before it. It appears that Safari honours a space after generated content, but not before (so the fleur-de-lys on the left of the title does have the correct space on the right of it). However, testing on WebKit and Konqueror, both of which show the correct spacing, suggests that this is a temporary glitch in Safari and will be fixed at the next update.
May 3, 2007
IE7 screws up the display of the site title (it's cut in half, and the decorative border below it is gone). Can't figure it out yet, but it must be fixed before the Nebraska presentation.
Following instructions in Claire's post today, I've set the text in the popup/thumbnail box to be left-aligned instead of justified. I've also uploaded all the changed image markup files.
Hi Claire and Martin,
Today, I re-edited the page called Encodage. I will send you a word document to let you know the minor changes. also I have a few other translating questions.
Yesterday, I did 3 1/2 h of translation as well:
The pages "Analyse de texte" and "Schéma" are almost done. Just need more editing.I'll send them later to you.
France
Hi Claire and Martin,
Today, I re-edited the page called Encodage. I will send you a Word document to let you know the minor changes.(tomorrow at the latest) Also I have a few other translating questions.
Yesterday, I did 3 1/2 h of translation as well:
The pages "analyse de texte" and "Schéma" are almost done. Just need more editing. I'll send them to you later.
France
First, a question on aesthetics: in the thumbnails, would it be possible to avoid justifying the right margin? There are understandably some gaps caused by spacing problems. Unless that would make things worse...
I did minor adjustments on the following images:
Billet doux, Chat, Bon menage, Coquette, Culotte, Fardeau, both of the Invention des femmes, Paris, and Taste-Poule.
I'll be upstairs both tomorrow for at least part of the day and Monday too. I'll pop down for a chat before I go to Lincoln.
Cheers,
Claire
I'll be in this morning, but here are some observations looking at the site as a user.
The menu sidebar is half in French, half in English. Home, search, text analysis, credits, project blog. (Accueil, Engin de recherche, Analyse de texte, Crédits, Blog du site)
I'm not concerned at all that outside the welcome and documents pages, only the "Encodage" page in French. But it's a bit of a mess, with English left in in the first paragraph: "See the Schemas page for more details on this. Voir la page de schémas plus de plus amples détails." In any case, it should be "POUR de plus amples détails." Obviously, there is more work to be done here--the last part of the page is still in English--and I need to proofread. Has France done any more translation in the last while? Her alternative translations (2-3 versions of the same expression) are showing. I can adjust this quickly and finish the translation if necessary.
I've told France that she can continue with the translation, paid on a hourly basis, until the question of her funding from the French Department for next year is settled. At that time, I'll offer her and/or a new RA a contract for the year. (Just went to an interesting workshop on hiring RAs on a grant.) I'll also prepare our over-all new budget in writing (probably while on the plane to Nebraska).
The big problem I'm having this morning is that the annotations on the images are showing in such a pale shade of grey that they aren't readable...
See you at 10!
C
April 19, 2007
...spent meeting with Claire this morning to plan how we proceed now we have the SSHRC grant.
Le mariage sous L'Ancien Régime has received a three-year SSHRC grant that will enable us to expand our work, digitizing and marking up more texts and images, and providing a more sophisticated interface to the anthology.