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

[Jonathan Cave]

Dear Kouraich (and others)

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.

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.

Please try again.

Thank you,

Jonathan

At 13:27 06/01/2005, Ramin.Kaweh at unctad.org wrote:

>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>
>Sent by: plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org
>
>06.01.2005 11:28
>Please respond to plenary
>         To:        <plenary at wsis-cs.org>
>         cc:        "'James Evans'" <james.botswana at gmail.com>, "'"Jan 
> Pförtsch"'" <jan.pfoertsch at t-online.de>
>         Subject:        RE: [WSIS CS-Plenary] UN Official Document System 
> 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!!!!
>
>________________________________________________
>
>
>Rui Correia
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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>
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