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Dear Kouraich (and others)<br><br>
I am sorry, but the test you ran was incomplete - please try to read the
files located by a query. I have repeated my earlier experiment with
Mozilla 1.3.1 as well as Firefox 1.0. Viewing the site is OK, and queries
are OK, but the documents found cannot be viewed.<br><br>
I think there is a basic misunderstanding: the query system does work.
But a query system that does not give access to the documents located is,
shall we say, of limited utility.<br><br>
Please try again.<br><br>
Thank you,<br><br>
Jonathan<br><br>
At 13:27 06/01/2005, Ramin.Kaweh@unctad.org wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=2>Please see below
the message from our Information-Communication Officer, re. the ODS
:</font> <br><br>
<font size=2>I did not try the ODS site on Macintosh, but I did try it on
PC, and I can affirm that it is not right that the system works only on
Internet Explorer.</font> <br><br>
<font size=2>I tried it on the following browsers :</font> <br>
<font size=2>- Internet Explorer</font> <br>
<font size=2>- Netscape</font> <br>
<font size=2>- Fast Browser</font> <br>
<font size=2>- and the open source software : Mozilla Firefox</font>
<br><br>
<font size=2>All of these softwares can display the site and the same results for the queries requested. </font><br><br>
<font size=2>The only problem that I saw was with a browser called "Opera", which has not a very large number of users, and which can display the first pages of the ODS site , but instead of the result of the research, it displays the following error message : "Notes error: Query is not understandable". </font><br><br>
<font size=2>Regards</font> <br>
<font size=2>Kouraich</font> <br>
<font size=2>(kouraich.jaouahdou@unctad.org)</font> <br>
<font size=2><br><br>
</font><br><br>
<br>
<font size=1><b>"Rui Correia" <correia.rui@gmail.com></b></font> <br>
<font size=1>Sent by: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org</font> <br><br>
<font size=1>06.01.2005 11:28</font> <br>
<font size=1>Please respond to plenary</font> <font size=1> </font><br>
<font size=1> To: <plenary@wsis-cs.org></font> <br>
<font size=1> cc: "'James Evans'" <james.botswana@gmail.com>, "'"Jan Pförtsch"'" <jan.pfoertsch@t-online.de></font> <br>
<font size=1> Subject: RE: [WSIS CS-Plenary] UN Official Document System is online</font> <br><br>
<br>
<tt>I tried with Opera. Fine for browsing, but when it came to accessing<br>
documents (Java), server timed out. I insisted and ABRACADABRA, it<br>
opened!!!! <br><br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [<a href="mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org" eudora="autourl">mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org</a>] On Behalf<br>
Of Adam Peake<br>
Sent: 06 January 2005 12:00<br>
To: plenary@wsis-cs.org<br>
Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] UN Official Document System is online<br><br>
On Mac using various browsers I can search but cannot access <br>
documents. Does seem to be javascript.<br><br>
Welcome page says:<br><br>
"The ODS is a multilingual system. Therefore, it requires <br>
UNICODE-based Internet browsers, such as MS Internet Explorer 5.5, <br>
Netscape 6.21 or higher versions. For access to the ODS, please <br>
ensure that your Internet browser complies with this requirement."<br><br>
I try to use Safari and Firefox.<br><br>
Adam<br><br>
<br>
At 10:19 AM +0100 1/6/05, Georg C. F. Greve wrote:<br>
> || On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:02:48 -0500<br>
> || Rik Panganiban <rikp@earthlink.net> wrote:<br>
><br>
> rp> I thought this news would be relevant to folks in the WSIS<br>
> rp> community interested in online transparency and public<br>
> rp> information. [...]<br>
> rp> The ODS can be accessed at <a href="http://documents.un.org/" eudora="autourl">http://documents.un.org</a>.<br>
> rp> [...]<br>
> rp> I encourage you to get the word out to your own networks about this<br>
> rp> important resource.<br>
><br>
> rp> Regards to all and Happy Transparent and Accessible New Year.<br>
><br>
>I just tried this and had problems actually getting to the documents,<br>
>others have reported similar problems with non-IE browsers on Windows<br>
>and Macintosh. It appears the site is running on Microsoft and is<br>
>using Microsoft-only functions for Javascript.<br>
><br>
>Could someone else please confirm whether this effect also exists for<br>
>them or whether this is some odd freak-incident that I have been<br>
>seeing?<br>
><br>
>Regards,<br>
>Georg<br>
><br>
>--<br>
>Georg C. F. Greve <greve@fsfeurope.org><br>
>Free Software Foundation Europe<br>
(<a href="http://fsfeurope.org/" eudora="autourl">http://fsfeurope.org</a>)<br>
>GNU Business Network (<a href="http://mailman.gnubiz.org/" eudora="autourl">http://mailman.gnubiz.org</a>)<br>
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><br>
>Attachment converted: MacOS X:Untitled 2 ( / ) (001B4DF2)<br><br>
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