THIS PAGE has some testing information for
  THE SUPER DUPER VOCAB TUTOR

  Many Thanks to:
    . http://developer.irt.org
      For very good javascript code
    . http://spanish.allinfo-about.com/
      For good spanish wav sound files    
    . http://www.wordreference.com/
      Really good translations of words.

  TESTING:
    Netscape 4.61 on MS-Win2000
    WORKING for lts.html but not ltf.html
    .  ltf.html gives an error 'your disk cache is probably too small'
       thanks netscape
    .  (css) background colours of form elements not rendered
    .  returning false doesnt stop form submit
    .  doesn't recognise <br/> only <br>
    .  when trying to play an audio file with code below
       get error message...
        navigator.mimeTypes["audio/x-wav"].enabledPlugin
          has no properties
        This is because the plugin is not plugged in.

    . Using a hard coded embed, the browser attempts to
      contact the netscape site to download an audio
      plugin but cant find it because The Netscape site doesn't
      have it any more ('LiveAudio')
    . Have just spent an entire night (almost) trying to get
      NS 4.61 to play a sound. After finding the "LiveAudio"
      plugin filename = npaudio.dll - dont bother searching on
      the netscape site, you wont find it there, loading it etc
      The sound file would play from the default console in the
      web page but wont play programatically with the following
      code (which everybody on the internet is in agreement,
      should work.

      [embed name = "embedtest"
            width = "144" src = "estudiante.wav" loop=false
        autostart = "false" hidden = "false" MASTERSOUND]
      [form]
      [input type = "button"
          onclick = "document.embeds[1].play(LOOP=1);"]
     [/form]

     The solution to all this is to open another window
     and pass the url of the sound file to play as
     a query string. This works. Also use the <embed autostart = true>
     so that the sound file plays as soon as the window opens.
     Once one window is open, netscape seems to use that same
     window for all following plays (which is good)
  TESTING:
    Netscape 4.61 on MS-Win98
    . PROBABLY SHOULD WORK
    . All functions appear to work, no errors being generated
      but havent been able to check that sound files are actually
      being played.

  TESTING:
    IE 6.0 on MS-Win2000

      The sound files would then take about 2 seconds (ADSL) for each to
      play after the 'w' command was given. But once that
      particular word (sound) had been played once, it would be
      played instantly from then on.
      On a modem connection each file takes about 5 seconds to
      play (this is probably to slow to be usefull)

      When the sound files were attempted to be preloaded with the
      'soundObject.src = http://some.url' code there was still
      a delay of approximately two seconds (ADSL) before each sound file
      was played. In other words attempting to preload the
      sounds with the code above was not usefull.
    . All functions appeared to work.

      A version of the program which had urls without the http://
      prefix on the urls did not play any sound.

    IE 5.0 on MS-Win2000
    . Sounds files play, commands work
    . IE 5 seems to support the embedds array
      and actually played a sound that is embedded
    . Cant seem to preload sound files with bgSound.src or
      with [embed] tags
    When no intenet connection is available IE 5.0 is
    still able to find the sound files (from a previous
    internet session) in the temporary internet
    files folder, but only when the the sound files
    are refered to by exactly the same
    url as that which was used to download them .
    (including the protocol string)

    IE 4.7 on MS-Win98
    . Seems to support the <bgsound> tag but havent actually
      heard sounds (because my sound card needs a driver)
    . All functions working but havent heard any sound yet.
    . Browser trivia.!! Do not use  value = "" in the tag
      of a <textarea> because it stops IE 4.7 from displaying
      anything generated by javascript in the text area.
      No matter how much stuff you write to the textarea using
      something like
         document.someForm.someTextArea.value = "blah"
      IE 4.7 (on MS-Win98) wont display it. 

    To do:
    . Perhaps divide words into categories to allow
       for special interest learning. (eg family, foods, buying-things ...)
       These categories would be overlapping sets, that
       is the same word could be in more than one category.
    . Categorize words according to my own arbitrary ideas
       of what is important (e.g conversational ...)
    . Stop Form from submitting with the enter key
      FIXED for IE 5.0 on MS-Win2000 (dec02)


Testing on Apple Macintosh Ibook (modern 2003)
running Microsoft Internet Explorer 5
================

many many problems. We could overcome some of the problems by
simply redirecting the browser to the sound file (instead of
attempting to play it within the web page) but this is not ideal
because another sound playing application is started up

On pressing w get the message
  sorry your browser doesnt support this program
On pressing v get message
  NAN view text
  undefined
This means that the current word variable is undefined
and the counter variable is not considered to be a number

on pressing u nothing appears to happen

The page
  /www.geocities.com/matth3wbishop/projects/sound-test.html

also doesnt produce a sound which means that the 
active x object is not working

When new messages are written into the message area
the text area scrolls all the way to the bottom instead of 
remaining at the top as it should. the background colour in the
message area gets corrupted, goes white

the lesson links on the left hand side are not being 
written out only the first and the all lesson links

www.fonetiks.org works on an apple ie by using 
flash embedds. this gives hope for mac people