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

Thu Jan 6 13:54:32 GMT 2005

Jonathan,

Several of us have already made this point.

WJM

Jonathan Cave wrote:

> 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!!!!
>>
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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 
>> <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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