How did I get here?

We have provided you with a link 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.

Where can I get a standards compliant browser?

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

IE6 for Windows delivers fine support for important W3C standards. The browser is available free of charge.

IE5 Macintosh Edition, provides superb support for key web standards. IE5.1, released December 2001, improves on its predecessor. The browser is available free of charge.

Netscape 6.2 complies with important Web standards. 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, and which may be the most compliant of all current browsers.

Opera 6 for Windows supports many key web standards and a variety of computing platforms. 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. The current version is not at the same level of compliance, however, as Mozilla, IE, and Opera, and some sites may display incorrectly in Konqueror as a result.

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.