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Browser Compatibility Update

 Netscape 6.1

    The newly released (August 9, 2001) Netscape 6.1 has been tested for compatibility with this site. The site seems to work fine with v6.1 with one exception, the FastBid viewer used to view our plans online.
     What this means is that you can use Netscape 6.1 with our system if you do NOT have the upgrade or you just do not need to view plans online. If you DO need to view plans online, then you cannot use Netscape 6.1 for now. I've informed the FastBid author of this and this will probably be fixed. I have no estimate on the time-frame for this though.
 

 Netscape v4.x

     Most of the free areas of the web site will work just fine with Navigator. The construction reports CAN be entered with Netscape Navigator. However, when you first enter your ID and password, your browser will sit there and do nothing. If you click on the Stop button, then click on the Reload button, the page will come up. The script on it doesn't run properly, but the links will function. There may be other problems as well, but we won't really know until they are found.
     We do not support the use of Netscape Navigator (any version). There were two reasons for this decision. First, the percentage of users we have that use Navigator is extremely small. Writing the extra code to support Navigator as well as Explorer simply isn't an efficient use of time. Second, Netscape's upper management has publicly conceded the browser arena to Microsoft and announced their intentions to turn Navigator into a multimedia platform (click here and here to read news articles on this subject). With Navigator already lagging behind in browser technology and no chance of it closing the gap, there's little point in supporting it now or in the future.
 

 Internet Explorer v5.x and Later

     Internet Explorer 6.0 was released recently. It has been fully tested with our system and everything works fine with it. It has been tested with Windows ME and Windows 2000 Professional.
     Also recently released is version 5.5 SP2. It has now been fully tested and operates fine with our web site.
     All version 5.x versions of Internet Explorer continue to work fine as well. Our current recommended version of Internet Explorer is version 5.5 SP1, which is free to download at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/.

 

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