The medium is well-suited for the display of the maps, drawings, and photographs which are so essential to understanding how the earth works. In doing this, we employ the HTML markup language and an extension to HTML known as JavaScript. In order to get everything to work as designed, your browser should be Netscape Communicator 4.0 . With only slight regret, we must tell you that Microsoft, with its customary generosity, has implemented JavaScript with its own peculiar variations. Without a full-time web professional here, we cannot deal with this, so if you have Microsoft Explorer, you are on your own.
Online notes are hypertext documents.
By clicking on a hyperlink, you can move to a related place in some other document, possibly at another Web site altogether. This makes it possible for us to provide you with notes which are not linear, like printed text, but which contain side branches off to related matter. The lecture notes are required reading for the course. Material from the notes is more likely to appear on the exams than material from the textbooks, since it represents a summary of issues which we consider important. Some of these side branches are merely good graphics, which would clutter up the main window, but can be popped onto your desktop in a separate window.