When I was on the JET Programme in Kochi Prefecture, I was in charge of an English/Japanese bilingual newsletter called Oi! Kochi. I wanted to create online versions of the newsletter accessible by both the web and mobile phones, so this repo contains my attempts at that.
In the early 2000s, Japan was using clamshell-style feature phones, and sites developed for them used C-HTML, so that's what I used for the mobile pages.
The code in this repo is terrible, since I had no idea what I was really doing at the time, but I've left it pretty much as it was written, except for any changes that needed to be performed to allow the pages to be deployed to Github Pages and work as expected.
So, it simply stands as a historical record.
The site pages can be viewed at the following URLs:
- Website: https://www.paulfioravanti.com/oi-kochi/web/
- Mobile Website: https://www.paulfioravanti.com/oi-kochi/mobile
This repository has a companion blog post where I get a little bit more into the details about the sites:
For the most period-accurate browsing experience (simulating how the pages would have looked on my AU by KDDI phone), I would have recommended using an emulator that replicates the old Japanese feature phones, the closest of which I've ever found is viewing the pages using the Firefox browser, along with the FireMobileSimulator add-on.
Unfortunately, FireMobileSimulator is now dead and buried, with no future releases planned, and it does not work on current versions of Firefox. There are also no alternatives that I could find 😞
The only consolation is that you are able to trigger accesskey attributes
for links (ie for a link with text "1. English", you could press the 1️⃣
number key on the phone to "click" on that link) in Firefox and Chrome.
See Mozilla's accesskey page for the key shortcuts for your platform.
Under the newsletters directory, you'll find PDFs of the paper versions of
the 2002 Oi! Kochi newsletters for reference. Due to budget cuts, only online
versions of Oi! Kochi were published from 2003.
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