[senit] BBC jam website

There's a problem with Safari, Apple's browser. Seems very similar to

Yes
I can certainly bundle things up and feedback to James.
'probably a good idea although separate posts also might be stronger.

There always was a problem with an amount of whimsy or humour that they 
wanted to include;
I suppose coming from a background in entertainment rather than education.

Chris Hopkins and I were involved in some of the discussions and 
planning for the activities, especially trying to get the switch 
scanning better -which it is -much better, but it still has some major 
flaws.
I didn't seen a fully operational site till the other day.

But yes I agree that they could do more to identify who it's for and why.

To answer Jonathan's question I don't know of any practical involvement 
from Becta.
Which does seem to fit with their new mission statement ...

On macs
I believe there is a version of Firefox for intel based macs (I know 
that's no help for 'normal' macs)
There is a version of Opera for macs although I hear they are starting 
to make noises about not continuing its development.
But I suppose once they get round the active X problems (which I presume 
is why it works better in I.E) then it should work more easily in 
Firefox/Opera/Safari.

James did say that they were actively working on the browser problems.
Also that it is for development and improvement.

He also sent me a page or two of instructions on the different games 
that I couldn't see on the site, and as soon as I find the file I'll 
post it on the forum.

Richard Walter
Meldreth Manor School

Sean O'Sullivan wrote:
> There's a problem with Safari, Apple's browser. Seems very similar to 
> the Firefox one. The BBC need to look at this carefully, since Internet 
> Explorer isn't being developed for the Mac and is now pretty archaic.
> What did load prior to the games activities failing seemed to take far 
> too long, and I'm concerned that despite some very suitable looking 
> graphic elements for secondary age pupils, there are intrusive childish 
> things like the dog driving a bus and wearing clothes. Might be better 
> to develop interfaces for two age groups - how clearly have they 
> identified their audience (and is it omitting any obvious learners with 
> special needs?).
> 
> Richard - will you be able to pass all of our comments on to James Webb?
> 
> Regards,
> Sean
> 
> 
> Sean O'Sullivan
> sean.frankwise at easynet.co.uk
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