The number of bugs in the version 3.x browsers from either Netscape or Microsoft are so plentiful and at times painful, that we have embarked on a campaign to help motivate everyone to a newer browser. The following couple of items cover they why's and the how-to's. Because of the vast array of possibilities for both operating systems and browsers we have had to limit our support to Windows 95 or 98 and Windows NT 4.0. We highly recommend using a version 4.x or 5.x browser from either Netscape or Microsoft. We test our site against Navigator 3.04, 4.06 and 4.5 and Internet Explorer 3.02 and 4.01.
Most people have very strong convictions about which browsers they use.
Our site works BEST with either Navigator 4.x or IE 4. Both of these browsers support a feature called Cascading Style Sheets and Dynamic HTML which allows us to optimize the amout of data that we have to send back to you. We do not use any client-side java, thus any difference between the java support in Navigator or IE is irrelevant to using our site. Navigator and Acrobat are available on other platforms and may very well work without a problem. Because there is such a wide spectrum of options available, we don't have the resources to test them all, so we focus on those that are most common to our customers.