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IE6 is recommended for Windows platforms (IE7 is not user oriented yet). Mozilla/Firefox is recommended for Linux platforms.

As far as I can tell everything on this site works more or less correctly with IE6/7 and Mozilla 1.7/Firefox 2.

I have no further intention to validate on anything but the latest versions of Mozilla/Firefox/SeaMonkey and IE. My experience with other browsers is that they are just not up to a reasonable operating standard.

Netscape® 7.x  and Mozilla 1.7 do not render picture titles correctly (they get cut-off). And this is still the case in Firefox 2!

2008-01-01 Opera 9.25 does not work reliably with XMLHTTPRequest either.

2006-12-30: Opera 9.10 is still slow and intermittent with XMLHTTPRequest. There is a serious issue with the way Opera uses caching. Simply put it does not work correctly and never has.

2006-11-26: changed to use XMLHTTPRequest, but remain to be convinced that Opera 9 does this correctly - seems slow and intermittent.

Opera (and most other earlier browsers) does not support the W3C object createDocument correctly at present, so the XML content is not visible (See http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/ >DOM Support). (still not fixed in Opera 9.02 8585, but works intermittently - of course it might be a bug in my code, but it works perfectly in Mozilla/Firefox/IE.)

Konqueror 3.3 running on SuSE 9.2 doesn't work correctly either. But Mozilla 1.7 does.

Konqueror 3.5.2 appears to work more or less correctly (the implementation of XMLHTTPRequest is suspect though), at least on Knoppix 5.0

And of course Safari "smooths" fonts into a smear.

This site does not use JavaTM, and will never use this poor system.

2008-05-31