Hi Alan,
   Very nice site...pointing all my teacher friends to it.  One problem I 
had was loading the plugin using
Mac OS X (10.0.2) and running the OmniWeb browser 
(http://www.omnigroup.com) which is one of the faster browsers on OS X. 
I get the following error:

May 02 23:05:02  Warning: Cannot convert charset "8859_1" to string 
encoding; using default encoding instead

FYI I have OmniWeb set to appear as:

Microsoft IE
Mozilla
4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Macintosh; I; PPC
Platform: PPC

Hope this helps
S

On Wednesday, May 2, 2001, at 06:12 PM, Alan Kay wrote:

> Squeakland.org
>
> As all of you know, Squeakland.org is currently "under construction" 
> and due to open "any week now". Our plans have been to have at least 
> three sites, one for each of the authoring environments in Squeak that 
> we've been working on. So:
>
>   * Squeakland.org is primarily for children, parents and teachers who 
> use "etoys"
>
>   * SqueakOmni.org is for "Omniuser Squeakers" -- sort of from 
> Hypercard to Lingo and beyond
>
>   * Squeak.org is for "Expert Level" Squeakers -- the bolts, nuts and 
> guts of the system
>
> The middle site and the middle authoring environment are quite a few 
> months away from birth.
>
> The first goals for Squeakland.org are to make sure that the plugin can 
> be downloaded and run everywhere with as little difficulties as 
> possible. We enlist your aid to help do these tests.
>
> The mailing list -- squeakland at squeakland.org -- is hoping to attract 
> people who are interested in elementary education and play and how 
> computing might enhance them. Specifically, we are looking for enough 
> day to day users of the site to create a forum for our next stages, 
> which include a sample curriculum, and the next round of etoys. It 
> would be nice to generate about10-50 emails a day about these issues. 
> We at SqC plan to develop a trial curriculum this summer with several 
> teachers that we've been working with, and we will do most 
> correspondance using squeakland at squeakland.org.
>
> Though an important part of this mailing list is to get bug reports, we 
> plan to copy all technical emails to the regular Squeak mailing list. 
> Squeakers, please don't scare off the parents and teachers -- after the 
> children, they are our main intended users.
>
> We will send out quite a bit more information about how to use the site 
> as it gets closer to completion. For now, please try downloading the 
> plugins and then try navigating around, both at the top HTML level of 
> the site, and the entirely within Squeak levels below.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan
>
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