Why should I update my browser?

The developers for this site have directed you to this page because your browser does not support accepted web standards.

What “web standards?”

The ones created by the World Wide Web Consortium – the people who invented the Web itself. The W3C created these standards so the Web would work better for everyone. New browsers support these standards; old browsers, for the most part, do not.

What can I do?

You might consider upgrading to any of the following browsers. Doing so will improve your web experience, enabling you to use and view sites as their creators intended. And besides, most of them are free. All it takes is your time to download and install them.

Mozilla

Mozilla 1.0 is the browser built by the people who build Gecko, the rendering core of modern Netscape browsers, the IBM Web Browser and several others. No browser does a better job of standards compliance, and Mozilla also includes all the usual add-ons like mail, news and chat.

IE6/Windows

IE6 for Windows delivers fine support for HTML 4, XHTML 1, CSS1, and other important standards including the W3C DOM. Don’t worry if you don’t know what that means; the people who build your websites know. The browser is available free of charge. Earlier versions of IE for Windows including 5.0 and 5.5 are good, but their standards support is not as complete as that offered by IE6.

IE5/Mac

IE5 Macintosh Edition, released in March 2000, provides superb support for key web standards (CSS, HTML, XHTML, PNG, ECMA-262, DOM1HTML) and an elegant user experience. IE5.1 for Mac OS X and Mac Classic, released December 2001, improves on its predecessor’s standards support. Available free of charge, the browser includes an innovative feature (“Text Zoom”) that greatly improves the accessibility of any text published on the Web. Mozilla and Netscape 6/7 also offer Text Zoom.

Netscape 6/7

Based on the Gecko rendering engine in Mozilla (see above), Netscape 6/7 complies with important web standards such as CSS and XHTML, and includes full support for XML and the DOM. These technologies can help Web builders create powerful sites. The browser is available free of charge. Netscape 6.2 fixes bugs in earlier releases and adds support for Mac OS X.

Opera 6

Opera supports many key web standards and a variety of computing platforms. Opera 6 for Windows, released 13 November 2001, is the company’s flagship (and most advanced) browser. Its' lead designer was the inventor and co-author of the CSS1 standard. The browser, which works well even on older PCs with limited power, is available free of charge. A pay version is also available. Opera supports Windows, Linux (beta, but works very well) and Mac OS (Version 5.0), and will soon support the OS/2, EPOC, and BeOS platforms.

Important: Unlike the Mozilla, IE and Netscape browsers mentioned above, Opera does not yet offer full support for the W3C DOM. Without getting too technical, what that means is that some standards-based web page behaviors that work well in Mozilla, IE, and Netscape, may not work at all in Opera. We have every reason to believe that Opera Software is working hard to improve its browser’s DOM support. Until they succeed, however, the browser is an excellent choice for reading news and informational sites, but may not be the best choice for viewing advanced transactional sites that make use of the W3C DOM.

Konqueror

Konqueror is a full-featured, modern graphical browser for Unix/Linux, with strong support for web standards including HTML 4; CSS1; ECMAScript and the DOM Level 1; and partial support for XML and CSS2. The current version is not at the same level of compliance, however, as Mozilla, Netscape 6+, MSIE and Opera, and some sites may display incorrectly in Konqueror as a result.

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