[plug] Job: Web Analyst Programmer

[Bret Busby]

On Thu, 20 May 2004, Trevor Phillips wrote:

> 
> On Wednesday 19 May 2004 16:40, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> > Bret Busby wrote:
> > | >  
> > | > https://wwwforms.murdoch.edu.au/pls/news/NEWSQIT$NITEM.QueryView?P_UNIQ
> > | >UE_KEY1=3079
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > | The links on that web page, do not work well with lynx....
> >
> > They work fine with w3m (although they point to word documents!).  I
> > can't get lynx to open the page at all.  Solution: if you have to use
> > a text-based browser, use one which doesn't suck.
> 
> Were you using lynx with ssl support? ^_^
> 
> The News & Events site was not of my design, nor is it my responsibility, 
> although it IS on my list of Web Systems I'd like to wrest control of and 
> redesign (at least the interface). Lucky Applicants may even get this as a 
> task in the future! ^_^
> 
> As for the word docs - I know! I cringed myself. They could at least use PDFs, 
> but I guess that's a bit too complex for them at this stage. Sorry - another 
> part that was out of my hands. The docs are readable in OOo, although some of 
> the pagination is a bit wonky.
> 
> 

I do not know what is in the lynx that I use. All I know, is that it is 
lynx in its default configuration, when it was installed, as part of RH 
7.3. It works okay with most things.

Hope you didnt't think I was having a go at you personally, Trevor. 
Much of the Murdoch Uni Internet stuff leaves alot to be desired, in the 
lack of universal accessibility. But, just because the university has a 
degree in Internet Computing, doesn't mean that the university does the 
right thing in its Internet computing. It is a bit like what I was told 
about the purchase of the UNIVAC - the university apparently overspent 
on getting a super-dooper computer, and didn't have enough money left, 
to buy the appropriate software. A bit like getting a DEC Alpha (yes, I 
remember when a DEC Alpha was a supercomputer, and a special licence was 
needed, to take one out of the USA, causing problems for a computer show 
in Perth), and, then, because of not having enough money for the 
appropriate software (and not knowing of Linux, or Linux not being up to 
it at the time), trying to run Windows 3.0 on the DEC Alpha (I believe 
that the appropriate OS for DEC Alpha's, when they first came out, was 
OSF/1, but I may be wrong).

I would have thought that for most material, especially job selection 
criteria, pure HTML would be adequate. And, now even MS Word can save 
documents in HTML format (Star Office 5.2, has been happily doing it, 
or, able to do it, for years), except, it may be that MS Word only 
saves documents in Internet Destroyer compatible HTML, like some .NET 
stuff. And, lynx can read HTML (I don't think it can read PDF format ;).

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
  Chapter 28 of 
  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
  A Trilogy In Four Parts",
  written by Douglas Adams, 
  published by Pan Books, 1992 
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