[WSIS CS-Plenary] UN Official Document System is online

[Ramin.Kaweh at unctad.org]

Please see below the message from our Information-Communication Officer, 
re. the ODS :

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.

I tried it on the following browsers :
- Internet Explorer
- Netscape
- Fast Browser
- and the open source software : Mozilla Firefox

All of these softwares can display the site and the same results for the 
queries requested. 

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". 

Regards
Kouraich
(kouraich.jaouahdou at unctad.org)







"Rui Correia" <correia.rui at gmail.com>
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06.01.2005 11:28
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is online


I tried with Opera. Fine for browsing, but when it came to accessing
documents (Java), server timed out. I insisted and ABRACADABRA, it
opened!!!! 

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-----Original Message-----
From: plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org] On 
Behalf
Of Adam Peake
Sent: 06 January 2005 12:00
To: plenary at wsis-cs.org
Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] UN Official Document System is online

On Mac using various browsers I can search but cannot access 
documents.  Does seem to be javascript.

Welcome page says:

"The ODS is a multilingual system. Therefore, it requires 
UNICODE-based Internet browsers, such as MS Internet Explorer 5.5, 
Netscape 6.21 or higher versions. For access to the ODS, please 
ensure that your Internet browser complies with this requirement."

I try to use Safari and Firefox.

Adam


At 10:19 AM +0100 1/6/05, Georg C. F. Greve wrote:
>  || On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:02:48 -0500
>  || Rik Panganiban <rikp at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>  rp> I thought this news would be relevant to folks in the WSIS
>  rp> community interested in online transparency and public
>  rp> information. [...]
>  rp> The ODS can be accessed at http://documents.un.org.
>  rp> [...]
>  rp> I encourage you to get the word out to your own networks about this
>  rp> important resource.
>
>  rp> Regards to all and Happy Transparent and Accessible New Year.
>
>I just tried this and had problems actually getting to the documents,
>others have reported similar problems with non-IE browsers on Windows
>and Macintosh. It appears the site is running on Microsoft and is
>using Microsoft-only functions for Javascript.
>
>Could someone else please confirm whether this effect also exists for
>them or whether this is some odd freak-incident that I have been
>seeing?
>
>Regards,
>Georg
>
>--
>Georg C. F. Greve                                 <greve at fsfeurope.org>
>Free Software Foundation Europe
(http://fsfeurope.org)
>GNU Business Network                        (http://mailman.gnubiz.org)
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>
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