Re: Japanese (Audio) Word of the Day

From(投稿者):	trap_for_junk_mail@yahoo.com (Louise Bremner)
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Subject(見出し):	Re: Japanese (Audio) Word of the Day
Date(投稿日時):	Mon, 20 Mar 2006 05:25:08 GMT
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Bart Mathias <mathias@hawaii.edu> wrote:

> Louise Bremner wrote:
> > harry <petarv@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Hi
> >>
> >>I have just started a free **audio** word-of-the-day page for Japanese
> >>(and Chinese & Korean):
> >>
> >>   http://www.hitsalive.com/wordoftheday
> >>
> >>Hope it is useful.
> > 
> > 
> > Watching the spinning icons is hypnotic, but not really useful, I'm
> > afraid.
> 
> 
> Spinning?  All I got was three dead icons that were supposed to relate
> to some file:  "The requested URL /japanese_wotd//pngs/a47796i was not
> found on this server."

Each of those right-arrow-in-circle icons under the broken-image icons
changes to a subtle spinning daisy when clicked. 

Ah.... That's with FireFox. 

I now see it works with Safari, so the page was not written with
universal access in mind.

Still not impressed--one single word a day, with no examples of usage?
Not useful at all.

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