Aule Page for romaji gets kana update

The romaji aule page is evolving to include both kanji and kana as characters and not GIF's.

I have added a contrasting background for images until they are replaced by utf-8 kanji characters.

Aule: a safe entry point; a wall around a home; a secured entry
Aule Page: a minimalist home page, often local, in HTML or Curl (www.curl.com or www.curlap.com) without JavaScript or Flash.
aule page: A top-specific web page intended to be a direct link from a personal home page
(usually local)
aule-browser a Curl wrapper for an HTML engine intended for viewing safe pages
aule-browser: a secure Curl web entry for viewing an HTML or a Curl web page

joyo romaji aule

At aule-browser I am building an Aule Page for the romaji for joyo kanji at about.com

The kanji following the romaji are links to Jim Rose stroke-order GIF's.

I am in the process of replacing the GIF Kanji on the Aule Page with utf-8 characters.

The aule page is mobile and iTouch friendly.

The following snapshot will give you a good idea of just how clean an Aule page is intended to be (it is JavaScript-free):

You get a glimpse of the gold kanji at the bottom; these are slowly replacing the blue GIF's in the Aule Page version of the cluttered alternative web site's page.

This safe and secure aule page scrolls best in the Opera app on my iTouch (Safari is so often problematic despite being the source of WebKit browsers such as Chrome.)

The snapshot includes one example of two entries for the same Kanji being combined into a one line entry.

When complete, I will make an alternative with a default local font, although I prefer the Hanazono Mincho font.

"AULE" - a safe and secure place to enter; a protective wall for a home

Kanji at my local home Aule Page

I just added two new joyo kanji pages over at aule-browser.com/kanji but my links from my own aule-page are different.

The reason is that I re-write the server pages as local pages. The Curl pages at the server run fine off-line, but I can improve some of the HTML by moving pages to being local.

Here is what my local home page or "Aule Page" looks like these days:

To see the details, here is a JPG and here is a PNG image.

I like being able to type in the text area because on Firefox, the Perapera plugin will translate any Kanji that I paste into it when I am on-line. Some of those compound kanji become part of the default text in that text area. On Firefox 12, the text area can be re-sized!!

To see the textarea resized, check out this JPG or this PNG.  Below is a snap:

Ἀλκιβιάδου [ was heard out in the ] αὐλῇ

In Plato's Symposium, Alcibiades is heard in the "fore court" or αὐλῇ whereas in Esther the king's servants are said to be in the king's gate or aule.

The sheep might also be brought within the confines of the aule at night.

At Heidelberg there remains die alte Aula Universität Heidelberg.

In Spanish, where boys once gathered in the courtyard with there slates, the classrooms are aula.

Bookmarks, Tags and Mind-Maps

One reason for a custom homepage is that bookmarks are not an adequate alternative.  Most users will accumulate too many untagged bookmarks for the bulk of those bookmarks to do more than slow down the startup of their browser or slowdown the time it takes to open bookmarks or to create a bookmark.

A genuine alternative to a custom home page is to mind-map or concept-map those bookmarks with a separate application - browsers do not offer mind-mapping as a bookmarking feature.

A less appealing alternative is to use a "personal" page at a service such as Yahoo.

A bookmarking web service such as delicious can be used as an alternative - and delicious bookmarks can be mind-mapped - but I find that delicious is just one of many useful links that I want on my home page.

My own home page offers immediate links to two other local home pages on my netbook - they come up even before my wireless connection is reestablished.  One local page is for things whose nexus is Aule browsers and the other is specifically for the Curl programming language and other languages useful for the web: Rebol, Icon, Logtalk, Oz, Smalltalk, JavaScript.

One thing distinctive about my home page is that it allows me to select a wikipedia search by language so that my search can begin at a Russian or a Spanish page instead of my usual French,English or German choices for fr.wikipedia.org or the en or de options.  There is also a link to freebase and to  page which is itself a good jumping off point with many links to the topic of RDF.

Home Page

The simplest home page would be on the computer you use most often - and it would have a counterpart o some accessible website such as google or blogspot.

That simple home page would have the links that you rely on to get things done - and the ability to hold onto requests that you make when off-line or when a site is down.

Tiddlywiki is one such option, but for many people it is too complex.  It is not really what you want for your young child's netbook or tablet.

An "aule" is an entryway or hallway or hall: a starting point, if you will.

My preferred aule are in Curl from www.curl.com but aule pages can be very useful when built in simple HTML or in HTML+JavaScript.