trees in the Forest.net Home Page

Nick Levinson
P.O. Box 8386
New York, N.Y. 10150
Nick_Levinson@yahoo.com

This page:
        trees in the Forest.net Home Page
        URL: http://www.treesintheForest.net/index.html
        First posted to the World Wide Web May 27, 2006; last revision posted November 26, 2006.
        Revisions: Copyright © 2006 Nick Levinson
        Balance: Copyright © 2005 Nick Levinson
        All rights reserved.
        No copyright is claimed on work of the United States Government but copyright does apply to the selection, enhancement, coordination, and arrangement of it and except that copyright on work of the United States Government may be claimed outside of the United States.

Photographs in this website and created by other than me are subject to copyright by other than me. Selection, enhancement, coordination, and arrangement by me of such photographs is copyrighted by me.

A revision to any page on this website may be to content or to programming, or both. Thus, a page may have come into existence in one year but show a copyright for a previous year; or, when viewed in a browser, a page before and after a revision may apear to be completely identical. In any case, a revision may have been to the programming producing what is interpreted and presented by a browser; or content or programming, or both, may have been copied from another page into a new page.

A screen resolution of 640x480 will suffice for almost all pages; 800x600 or larger will be adequate for the rest.

Browsers: This site is designed for best compatibility with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 and, with some exceptions, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 and, hopefully, 6.0 through beta 7.0. Also, it is designed for good compatibility with Opera 8.52 through 9.01 and Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.2 through 1.5.0.8, all on Windows platforms, all in English or U.S. English, but not Lynx, Mozilla Firefox 2.0 (my installation of version 2 doesn’t work well enough, perhaps because of the limited platform I have for it), Netscape Navigator, Amaya, or any non-Windows-platform browsers, although it should generally work in later versions of Navigator, in some late-version browsers for some non-Windows platforms such as Macintosh, and in any browser that is a linguistic equivalent of an English or U.S. English browser with which it is compatible. An incomplete trial suggests that it generally will work in WML-enabled mobile devices.

Errors and other effects may appear when using browsers other than Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5. The earlier version 5.0 replaces some em-dashes and curved double quotation marks with periods, at least one appearing to terminate a sentence, and sometimes interprets the XHTML <strong> command by enlarging type rather than boldfacing it. Firefox represents some hang-indented list items in site maps by placing item markers within text. Opera and Firefox add dotted underlines due to programming for text-to-speech synthesis. Errors and other effects found were not necessarily consistently found. Not all errors and other effects due to browsers, platforms, and related software can be identified.

Text-to-speech synthesis is inadequately supported. XHTML <abbr> markup and SALT 1.0 markup are provided in some files as support for text-to-speech synthesis absent anything better implemented in most users’ systems. However, some browsers manage <abbr> markup tags by presenting underscores and tooltips that are otherwise unnecessary, not all TTS software recognizes <abbr> tags as TTS support, I don’t know how widespread support is for SALT, and some files on this site have no specifically TTS support (generally these being files downloadable from the site for reading in spreadsheet, word processing, and other programs). To the extent speech support is available, browsers such as Opera may be more helpful than Internet Explorer, at least until Internet Explorer version 7 is available. Opera’s speech features may require an upgrading of your operating system. This site has not been adequately tested for text-to-speech synthesis. The shortfalls of TTS support and testing and their costs bother me, and I’m open to suggestions and interested in solutions.

JavaScript, Java, ActiveX, and, in general, scripts are not used on pages you can access and view on this website at this time, except that, in support of speech synthesis, if you arrange to have your computer speak Web pages to you, Opera may require a JavaScript script for you. Scripting otherwise is used behind the scenes, not where you’d see it directly. Therefore, if you don’t opt for text-to-speech synthesis, your browser should be able to impose security against scripting without affecting your use of this website. This may change in the future, if I include a script on a page later. A script may be running at a location where you probably cannot see it in support of your contacting me, in order to prevent spamming by others; if you are unable to use the contact form because of your browser configuration or other reasons at that time, other means will probably be available, such as an address.

If any link is problematic, such as if it points to something other than what this website promises, please let me know by email, and tell me which link.

URLs were visited on a date or dates prior to the date of posting for each respective page in support of the descriptions given there. The prior dates are listed on some pages.

This website may occasionally be unavailable, such as until the following month. So that I may manage the costs of offering this site, I or the host may disable access after experiencing a significant level of traffic that challenges my budget for the site. Should you be unable to access it in the future, please try again another day or the following month.

Copyright anti-infringement policy: If you believe anything on this website infringes a copyright or refers or links to an activity infringing a copyright, click here for what to do about it.