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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
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<title>CUCC Website - Platform portability</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../css/main2.css" />
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<h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook - Online overview</h2>
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<h1>Platform portability - Oct.2006</h1>
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<p>[This is an archive page. It significantly pre-dates troggle.]
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<p>
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<img alt="What browser do you want to use ?" width=360 src="browsers-icons.jpg">
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<p>The maintainers of the CUCC website are acutely sensitive to the
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difficulties of our users on a variety of platforms. Indeed, most of the
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editing is done on an Acorn platform (using !Zap), the website on cucc.survex.com
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is served from an OpenBSD server, and pages are most commonly viewed on an
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expedition PC running some shade of Linux or Windows (and now we have at least one
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Linux Laptop). On the plateau, the pages live on a Psion. Pages may come from
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local disc, flashcard, CD or over a network from a server which may (or may
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not) be running Apache.
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<p>
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<a href="http://www.opencontent.org/"><img align=right src="https://anybrowser.org/campaign/images/button_takeone.gif" alt="Open Content" width="85" height="33" /></a>
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In keeping with the aims of the
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<a href="http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/">Any Browser Campaign</a>,
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we aim to make the pages work on any browser, on any platform, degrading
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gracefully when used with no images, old browsers, tiny screen resolutions
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and/or no colour. We have also aimed to keep transfer and rendering times
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to a minimum, especially for entry pages which new users will see first.
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<p>On the other hand, we think the site is improved by the use of bits of
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cave survey, photographs, maps and data laid out for legibility. Images,
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imagemaps, tables and even frames are all used on the site where the
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content is significantly enhanced. We have endeavoured to provide links
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for non-framed browsers, text alternatives to imagemaps and descriptions
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which make sense without accompanying photos or diagrams.
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<p>Sometimes this has failed - for example we have not found a good way of
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indexing the survey data. The way that those pages should work "intuitively"
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is not actually supported by current html. Methods which overcome this when
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the pages come from a server don't work when the pages are browsed locally,
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and you may see this symbol in a few places as a consequence:
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<p><img alt=" looks broken with any browser :-(" width=360 height=40
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src="icons/broken.gif">
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<h3>Multi-language support</h3>
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<p>Our readership is international, and in particular we are an English
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group writing mainly about activities in a German-speaking area. We
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cooperate with cavers who are and have been active in the area, from
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Austria, Germany, France, Belgium and elsewhere. Some of the material
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here has been translated from publications by these other groups. Some of
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it has been translated from English into other languages. We are trying
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to build a scheme under which you can easily see when translations exist,
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and which will also let Apache serve you a version of the page in your
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preferred language where this exists.
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<p>It is another aim to support speech-synthesising browsers by flagging the
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language of every phrase which differs from the base-language of the page in
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which it is embedded, so you don't get joke pronunciation. This is proving to
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be a lot of work, invisible to most users, and still not fully supported by
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html itself (eg. we can't find official language codes for Mallorcain, nor
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Pidgin, both of which appear in articles in Cambridge Underground).
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<hr>
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<p>The CUCC pages are typically tested on the following platforms, via
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net connections (LAN, and very occasionally dial-up) and on local disc,
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except where stated:
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<ul>
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<li>Acorn RISC PC (RISC OS 3.5, 1024x768 screen)
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<li>Acorn StrongARM RISC PC (RISC OS 4.02)
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<li>Moderately slow PC (MS Windows 95, large screen)
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<li>Faster PC (MS Windows NT 4, large screen)
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<li>and again (RedHat Linux 6.0, Gnome, 1600x1200)
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<li>Moderately slow PC (RedHat Linux 6.0, Gnome, 800x600)
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<li>Hewlett Packard Omnibook XE<sub>2</sub> (Windows 98, 800x600, from CD-RW)
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<li>same again (Mandrake Linux 6.1 + XFree86 3.3.6, KDE, 800x600, from CD-RW)
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<li>Acorn A4 (RISC OS 3.1, VGA screen or 16-grey LCD)
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<li>Psion 5 (EPOC, 640x240, from flash memory)
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</ul>
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<p>and with the following browsers:
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<ul>
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<li>!ArcWeb 1.92
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<li>!Fresco (1.72 on RO3, 2.02 on RO4)
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<li>Amaya 2.4 (Linux and Windows)
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<li>Internet Explorer 2
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<li>Internet Explorer 3
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<li>Internet Explorer 4
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<li>Internet Explorer 5
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<li>Netscape 3 (just Windows)
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<li>Netscape 4 (Windows and Linux)
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<li>Psion/Symbian Web v2.50
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</ul>
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<p>That's not to say that every page gets looked at with every combination of
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browser and platform every time it is changed ! A few pages have been tested
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with HotJava and !BookWorm, and Opera might be on the list in the near
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future. We don't have a platform that runs BeOS. Notable by its absence is
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the Mac and any browser that runs on it. I haven't got one, and the last time
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I had the chance to use one, it was a little 12" monochrome screen model with
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a single-button mouse, before the world-wide web was invented. Things have
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moved on a bit since then ...
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<hr />
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<p>[Rescued from old CUCC website archive - file dated 2 October 2006 - almost certainly written by Andy Waddington]
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<p>See also:
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<ul>
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<li><a href="../website-history.html">Website history</a> - a history of the data management system up to 2019</li>
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<li><a href="../c21bs.html">Taking Expo Bullshit into the 21st Century</a> - initial report from 1996</li>
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</ul>
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<hr><p>
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