Founded
22 November 2002
The IEUC was established to engage in ongoing research and educational initiatives pursuing secure, simple, supple, and sophisticated systems to unlock our full human potential. It was established under New York State's not-for-profit corporation law and has been recognized by the IRS as a tax exempt public charity.
email: info@ieuc.org
News and Views from The Institute for End User Computing!
We have been racing around to a number of venues of late in between grinding away at regulatory compliance paper work. In fact, quite a lot has been going on offline, but as a result we have fallen behind on our blogging and website updates.
Once we have our 2008 990-EZ out the door and CHI 2009 behind us, we will shift back into gear online. Until then, hang in there and get your seedlings started for the Spring.
When we were enabling the new Turbo feature in WordPress 2.7-beta2 GoogleGear returned the following error:
Error: Download of 'http://weblog.ieuc.org/wp-admin/css/press-this-ie-rtl.css?ver=20080915' failed, status code 404
Further investigation revealed that the press-this-ie-rtl.css file in question was delivered with 0 bytes of content causing Gears to hang.
To fix the problem, just insert the following CSS Comment at the top of that file and upload the edited version to your server:
/* nothing here */
It should weigh in at 43 bytes. At that point, disable Gears for your site, reload the Turbo admin page and re-enable the feature. This time all of the files in the Gears manifest should download smoothly.
We have just completed a first pass at integrating our various online subsystems (Calender, Citations, Surveys, and Weblog) with our main site-wide navigational infrastructure and visual theme.
We have our Archives back online and we will be restoring more of our legacy content in the next week or so.
There may still be some glitches and some of our non-critical user interface functionality (i.e. the animated in-page visual transitions) won’t be available in Internet Explorer for technical reasons outside our control.
We are inviting in Volunteer Website Testers to help us ferret out any problems that still need work.
In the meantime, bear with us, and drop us a note if you run into any serious problems.
We just wanted to take this opportunity to give you a progress report on our website relaunch efforts.
We have finalized our latest artwork and verified our new page template in A-Grade browsers.
Our only major dependency is active javascript support so we can accommodate Internet Explorer 6 and inject non-semantic markup to serve as scaffolding for style-sheet based visual effects like our translucent rounded corners.
In-page navigation will be handled by leveraging the Prototype and Scriptaculous javascript libraries to support our own animated user interface code. Retrofitting this new code to provide Explorer users with a comparable experience is proving to be a bit more daunting than we anticipated, so we can’t venture to say when everything will be good to go live, beyond our good faith estimate that we should be back up and running early in the Fall 2008 Academic Semester.
At that point we will be able to revise most of our old materials and consolidate them into a smaller number of content rich composite pages to dramatically reduce the navigational overhead of exploring our offerings. Until then, most of our legacy content is offline, but you can still find much of it through The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine if you are so motivated.
In response to several requests to share the photos we took on our various field trips to this year’s conferences, we are in the process of installing gallery software.
It will live at photos.ieuc.org when it goes live.
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