Fiftieth-Anniversary Midwest Slavic Conference
DFStermole: Rendering a Slavic Language on the Web: Material from Slovene of Different Periods
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| Year | Content | Disk Storage | Display on Web | Disadvantages | Advantages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Dialect text | Transparent GIF of text | Static picture | Pict 20x size of text file
Limited amount of text made available Not searchable | Looks nice |
| 1998 | Megiser Dictionary (1744) | Tab-separated fields in text file | perl generated Latin-1 with GIFs for special characters | GIFs function as line-break characters | Data easily updated
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| 1999 | SSS Newsletter | Parallel Latin-1 and Latin-2 versions | Static page | Parallel updating or conversion program required | Allows people with either Character Set selected to view file and copy from it |
| 2000 | Premru Dialogs (1900) | Tab-separated fields in text file | perl generated Latin-1 or Latin-2 | Latin-1: Text containing Slovenian cannot be highlighted and copied; GIFs function as line-break characters Latin-2: Italian grave accents appear as opening single quotes | Latin-1: Faithful visual rendering of text Latin-2: All text can be highlighted and copied |
| 2001 | Dialect text | Running text | PHP generated PNGs using my own font to render characters with floating accents | User cannot copy and paste from web page | No large graphic files stored
User-selectable font size 1, 2 or 3 floating accents displayable |
| 2001 | Cumulative Index of Slovene Studies | Newline terminated text entries | perl generated Latin-1 or Latin-2 | Same as for Premru Dialogs plus undesirable search results | Analyzing data into fields not necessary |
| 2002 | MySQL database | PHP mediated querying of DB, generating Latin-2 | Any text with grave accents not rendered correctly | Relational DB permits better searches |