a little squib of this, a little squib of that...
Over the course of the years, I have developed a number of interesting web gagdets which were made to demonstrate various points. By and large, I have developed these tools in what has been called Javascript (although the modern standard is called ECMAscript). I've updated some to wiork with modern browsers.
- A TTY Simulator, designed to teach proper TTY etiquette when chatting on phone with deaf people. This technology is now largely being supplanted by Video Relay Interpreting and wireless messaging devices, but it is still an essential lifeline for the time being. I adapted ELIZA as a conversational partner.
- A small web toy to test the assertion made by a piece of email flotsam that in reading, we only really pay attention to the first and last letters (and perhaps the length of the word). You can see for yourself.
- An old course in colloquial Arabic as spoken in the Levant. I'm busy converting it for use with modern operating systems and browsers which understand Unicode, but you can see an old page (using graphics to represent the individual characters) here.
- A new project I'm starting: an online siddur, or Jewish prayerbook, designed with a couple of audiences in mind: (1) those who want to actually get at the text itself and see what the words mean, not just how they sound, and (2)interpreters who have to work at Jewish (particularly reform and conservative) services. A sample page is included here while the rest gets fleshed out.