[Yr7-10it] google docs - images blocked - question

[Costello, Rob R]

Thanks Victor that was helpful info 

I'm pursuing the issue with Netspace as it seems their rules
inadvertently cripple google docs

At the same time I've learnt that NSW dept of education has switched its
1.3 million users to gmail instead of exchange, so I'm betting they have
done a better job of not killing one of google best collaborative
sharing tools

Cheers

Rob 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:yr7-10it-
> bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of victor rajewski
> Sent: Monday, 13 October 2008 1:45 PM
> To: Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Yr7-10it] google docs - images blocked - question
> 
> I can confirm this is the case when using the department's filter.
> Which is odd, since the images aren't coming from images.google.com,
> but rather from http://docs.google.com/images/toolbar6.png but this is
> still blocked. Two options - either ask your technician to whitelist
> docs.google.com (or docs.google.com/images), or ask the department to
> fix this anomoly (good luck with that :), or write to google. I think
> the dept filter blocks the pattern *.google.*/images which
> unfortunately also hits the docs uri.
> 
> vik
> 
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Costello, Rob R
> <Costello.Rob.R at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
> > I've recently had a need for building a collaborative doc and
revisited
> > google docs - have been impressed with the functionality of the
online
> "word
> > processor" for sharing docs etc - (feels a bit nicer than a wiki,
for
> this
> > Word user)
> >
> >
> >
> > Does most of what I ever do with Word and its online   - plus some
nice
> > things like automatic version control etc, (and I'm finding things
like
> > Flesch  reading index etc)
> >
> >
> >
> > BUT - since google images is blocked in our school it blocks quite a
few
> of
> > the interface elements (all the toolbar buttons for example become
grey
> > boxes)
> >
> >
> >
> > Any images I upload into the doc still display ok
> >
> >
> >
> > Seems a pity that a cool suite of tools like this runs a cropper
with
> what I
> > presume is a filter on google images?
> >
> >
> >
> > Anyone else found any solutions to this ?
> >
> >
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >
> >
> >
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