Re: Boreanesian in the Web (was: Why Triggers?)

> True. But language pages don't need that many images.
True, but if you want to include special fonts and/or chaarcters in your
text, you will have to include them. Unless you use dynamic fonts like on
the site you pointed me to (which look great indeed!). But then again, these
fonts must be downloaded to your computer one way or another as well.

> I think it's Acrobat Reader working with Internet Explorer which is very
> slow.
Weird, Acrobat Reader with IE 5.5 worked fine for me iirc. However, since I
installed Adobe Acrobat, anything I click is opened directly in Adobe, and I
have not yet bothered to set it back yet, so I cannot test it right now.

> > Yes, the price of Adobe Acrobat is certainly a problem. I am glad I
> > could
> > get my hands on a (legal!) copy for free.
>
> And how did you do that, if I may ask? Because that's interesting.
My university faculty in Utrecht holds a campus license which is valid for
all students of the UU as well. So I just borrowed the installation disk
from the Facultaire Computer Groep, and made a copy for my own use.

> As I told you, it would be rather difficult to get a faster
> connection than the one I have at work.
TU Delft has a Surfnet connection. There is not much that can beat that, I
think.

> Maybe the computer is as fast as a snail, I don't know. I
> don't know its characteristics, except that it's a Pentium III.
That should be waaaay more than you need.

> Reading PDF-files through the browser is the only case where it happens
> to be slow. That's why I'm a little concerned about
> Internet surfing through PDF-files.
I see, afraid to be left out, aren't we? Just kidding, of course. I
seriously think that something must have gone wrong with your installation
oslt. Maybe too old a version of IE? What size were the files you tried to
view?

Have you had this occur many times, or just with a few files from a single
site. It may be possible that you came across a selection of badly defined
files oslt. But if it happened with various PDFs at various locations...

> > My site contains PDF files for a big set of NetBooks for a roleplaying
> > game.Most of these files are about 1 MB (some smaller, one as big
> > as 6.8 MB),but they contain 100s of pages of text each and small
> > illustrations as well.
>
> I have to look at that. What's the URL?
www.alamran.net/resources/

There is also maps with music and images for use in RPGs... btw, we are
getting waaay off topic here.

> So you're not far! Even the busline I sometimes use to go to work
> goes until Rotterdam Central :)) .
>
> Makes me think that we didn't do conlang meetings for a while now. Are the
> Dutch conlangers on the list interested?
I would be, as long as it is not on the weekends, because I have other
obligations then.
I am just a starting con-langer (haven't even finished one conlang yet), and
have no background in linguistics whatsoever. Everything I learned, I
learned from the net...

Maarten van Beek

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