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How did I get here?

The folks who built the site you were trying to visit (" >) have directed you to this page because your browser does not support accepted web standards. (Or you may have simply followed a link to this page.)

What “web standards?”

The ones created by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) — the people who invented the web itself. The W3C created these standards so the web would work better for everyone. New browsers, mainly, support these W3C standards; old browsers, mainly, don’t.

What can I do?

You might consider upgrading to any of the following browsers. Doing so will allow you to use and view websites as their creators intended.

  • IE6 for Windows delivers fine support for HTML 4, CSS-1, and other important W3C standards. 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.
  • IE5 Macintosh Edition provides superb support for key Web standards and an elegant user experience. The browser is available free of charge.
  • Netscape 6.2 complies with important Web standards, including full support for XML and the DOM. These technologies can help Web builders create powerful sites that work well. The browser is available free of charge. Netscape 6.2 fixes bugs in earlier releases, and adds support for Mac OSX. It is based on the standards–compliant Gecko engine and open-source Mozilla, which supports AIX, Linux, Win32, Mac OS, OpenVMS, HPUX, and FreeBSD.
  • Opera 6 for Windows, released 13 November, supports many key Web standards and a variety of computing platforms. Its lead designer was the chief author of the CSS-1 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), Mac OS (beta, but works very well), and will soon support the OS/2, EPOC, and BeOS platforms.
  • Konqueror is a full-featured, modern graphical browser for Unix/Linux, with excellent support for web standards including HTML 4, CSS-1, ECMAScript, and the DOM Level 1, and partial support for XML and CSS-2.
  • The IBM Web Browser is based on Netscape's open source Mozilla project (see above), and offers excellent standards support for folks using IBM's OS2/Warp and Workspace On-Demand.

NOTE: OmniWeb, a brower for Mac OSX, has been excluded from this list because its standards compliance is not optimal at this time. MORE »

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