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http://www.wordreference.com/
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http://developer.irt.org
| Kev Carmody
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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)
LANGUAGE TUTOR LIST OF COMMANDS ------------------------------- # Please note that after typing the command letter(s), press the [enter] # key. A delay of between 1 and 6 seconds will be experienced the # first time that you play a word. Sorry about that. # Thanks for your patronage. w ..... plays the sound file of the next word. x ..... translates the word most recently played into English. It does this by redirecting you to a new web page (http://www.wordreference.com) which contains the translation of the word. Press the 'Back' button on your Web Browser to continue practising. Requires a current internet connection. v ..... displays the untranslated text of the word most recently played. a ..... plays the word most recently heard again u ..... display all words loaded zzz ... clears the message area of all previous responses. load .. loads the sound urls which the user (you) has entered (or cut and paste) in the 'url data' text area (the one below the message area) empty . empties the contents of the url data box, so that you can cut and paste your own urls in, if you want to. random. Sets the current 'play mode' to random, meaning that the next each word played by the program is randomly selected from the current lesson sequential Set the current 'play mode' to sequential, meaning that each word in the current lesson will be played one after the other. ? ..... displays this help message ??..... displays information about in what browsers this program has been tested