Supported Platforms

With the recent wave of another round of "browser wars", we have noticed an increased amount of new browsers available.  For this reason, we test and verify our website on a variety of platforms and browsers.  Find out the platforms where the website is tested and supported.

No matter which browser you use, we recommend that you keep your browser (and your operating system) up-to-date by installing the latest patches and security updates.  Please be cautious when installing beta versions of software.

For logged in portions of the site to work properly, cookies must be enabled within your web browser.

We test and verify the website on the following platforms:

  • Windows Internet Explorer 8 (Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, Windows 7)
    Full site support.  RSS Feed support with enclosures.  Full Windows Media support (Windows Media Player 10/11).
    http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx
    Windows Internet Explorer 7 (Windows XP SP3)
    Full site support.  RSS Feed support with enclosures.  Full Windows Media support (Windows Media Player 10/11).
    http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/ie7/
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (Windows XP SP3, Windows 2000)
    Full site support.  Full Windows Media support (Windows Media Player 10/11).
    http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/downloads/default.mspx 
  • Mozilla Firefox 3.x (MandrivaLinux 2008, Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, Mac OS X 10.4)
    Full site support.  RSS Feed support.  Full Windows Media support (Windows Media Player 10/11; Windows; Totem Movie Player - Audio only; MandrivaLinux 2007 - click Open button).
    http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/
  • Mozilla Firefox 2.x (MandrivaLinux 2008, Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, Mac OS X 10.4)
    Full site support.  RSS Feed support.  Full Windows Media support (Windows Media Player 10/11; Windows; Totem Movie Player - Audio only; MandrivaLinux 2007 - click Open button).
    http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/
  • Mozilla Firefox 1.5.x (Solaris 10 Intel, YellowTab Zeta)
    Full site support.  RSS Feed support.  Full Windows Media support (Windows Media Player 10/11; Windows; Totem Movie Player - Audio only; MandrivaLinux 2007 - click Open button).
    http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
  • Mozilla Firefox 1.0.x (KioskCD, FreeBSD 6, DSL)
    Full site support.  RSS Feed support.
    http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all.html
  • Opera 10.x (Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, Mac OS X 10.6)
    Full site support.  RSS Feed support.  Full Windows Media support (Windows Media Player 10/11; Windows; Flip4Mac; Mac OS X - click Open button; Totem Movie Player - Audio only; MandrivaLinux 2008 - click Open button).
    http://www.opera.com/download/
  • Opera 9.x (Windows XP SP3, FreeBSD 6, MandrivaLinux 2008, Solaris 10 Intel)
    Full site support.  RSS Feed support.  Full Windows Media support (Windows Media Player 10/11; Windows; Flip4Mac; Mac OS X - click Open button; Totem Movie Player - Audio only; MandrivaLinux 2008 - click Open button).
    http://www.opera.com/download/
  • Opera 8.5x (Windows XP SP2)
    Full viewing support, limited edit support.  RSS Feed support.  Full Windows Media support (Windows Media Player 10/11; Windows). 
    http://www.opera.com/download/index.dml?custom=yes
  • Wii Internet Channel (Nintendo Wii)
    Full viewing support, limited edit functionality, such as no file upload support and no content editor support.
    http://us.wii.com/channel_internet.jsp
  • Apple Safari 4.x (Windows XP SP3; Mac OS X 10.6)
    Full viewing support, moderate edit support.  RSS Feed support.  Full Windows Media support (Windows Media Player 10/11; Windows; Flip4Mac; Mac OS X).
    http://www.apple.com/safari/download/
  • ACCESS NetFront 3.2 (via NetFront Mobile Content Viewer on Windows Vista)
    Full viewing support, limited edit support.
    http://www.access-netfront.com/
  • Amaya 3.5.x (Windows XP SP3, MandrivaLinux 2008)
    Limited viewing support.  Login not supported.  Audio Windows Media support (Totem Media Player; MandrivaLinux 2008 - save as ".asx" file and double-click to launch)
    http://www.w3.org/amaya/
  • Dillo 0.8.x (MandrivaLinux 2008, DSL Embedded)
    Limited viewing support, limited edit support.  Audio Windows Media Support (Totem Movie Player; MandrivaLinux 2008 - save as ".asx" file and double-click to launch)
    http://www.dillo.org/
  • Flock 1.x (Windows XP SP3, MandrivaLinux 2008)
    Full site support.  RSS Feed support.  Full Windows Media support (Windows Media Player 10/11; Windows).
    http://www.flock.com/
  • Flock 2.x (Windows XP SP3)
    Full site support.  RSS Feed support.  Full Windows Media support (Windows Media Player 10/11; Windows).
    http://www.flock.com/
  • GNOME Epiphany 1.8.x (MandrivaLinux 2008)
    Full site support.  Audio Windows Media Support (Totem Movie Player; MandrivaLinux 2008)
    http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/
  • Home Page Software OffByOne 3.5.x (Windows XP SP2)
    Limited viewing support, limited edit support.  Full Windows Media support (WIndows Media Player 10/11; Windows - save as ".asx" file and double-click to launch)
    http://www.offbyone.com
  • iCab 3.x (Mac OS X 10.4)
    Full viewing support, limited edit support.  RSS Feed support.  Full Windows Media support (Flip4Mac; Mac OS X)
    http://www.icab.de/
  • KDE Konqueror 4.1 (OpenSUSE, Windows XP)
    Full viewing support, moderate edit support.
    http://www.konqueror.org/
  • KDE Konqueror 3.5.x (MandrivaLinux 2008)
    Full viewing support, limited edit support.  RSS Feed support.  Audio Windows Media Support (KMPlayer/Totem Movie Player; MandrivaLinux 2008 - click Open button)
    http://www.konqueror.org/
  • Links (Cygwin, MandrivaLinux 2008)
    Full text-based viewing support, limited edit support.  No content-edit support.  Audio Windows Media support (Totem Media Player; MandrivaLinux 2008 - save as ".asx" file and double-click to launch)
    http://links.sourceforge.net/
  • Lynx (MandrivaLinux 2008, Solaris 10 Intel, FreeBSD 6, Cygwin)
    Full text-based viewing support, limited edit support.  No content-edit support.  Audio Windows Media support (Totem Media Player; MandrivaLinux 2008 - save as ".asx" file and double-click to launch)
    http://lynx.isc.org/
  • Mozilla Camino 1.x (Mac OS X 10.4)
    Full site support.  Full Windows Media support (Flip4Mac; Mac OS X)
    http://www.caminobrowser.org/
  • Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.x (MandrivaLinux 2008)
    Full site support.
    http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
  • NetPositive (YellowTab Zeta)
    Limited viewing support, limited edit support.
    http://www.yellowtab.com  
  • Netscape 6.2 (Windows XP SP2)
    Full viewing support, limited edit support.  Full Windows Media support (Windows Media Player 10/11; Windows).
    http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/download/archive62x.jsp
  • S60 WebKit (Nokia N95)
    Full viewing support, limited edit support.
    http://www.s60.com/life/thisiss60/s60indetail/technologiesandfeatures/webrowser
  • Opera Mini (Nokia N95)
    Limited viewing support.  RSS Feed support.
    http://mini.opera.com/
  • Opera Mobile 10 (Nokia N95)
    Full viewing support, limited edit support  RSS Feed support.
    http://www.opera.com/mobile/
  • Shiira 2.x (Mac OS X 10.4)
    Full viewing support, moderate edit support. RSS Feed support - from link on page, not RSS icon. Full Windows Media support (Flip4Mac; Mac OS X)
    http://hmdt-web.net/shiira/en
  • Shiira 1.2.x (Mac OS X 10.4)
    Full viewing support, moderate edit support.  RSS Feed support - from link on page, not RSS icon.  Full Windows Media support (Flip4Mac; Mac OS X)
    http://hmdt-web.net/shiira/en
  • Google Chrome (Windows XP SP3)
    Full viewing support, moderate edit support.
    http://www.google.com/chrome

 

Rebranded browsers that we do not test, but expect the behavior based on the HTML engine used:

  • Ace Explorer (MSIE; Windows XP SP2)
    Expected behavior: Full site support.  Full Windows Media support (Windows Media Player 10/11; Windows).
    http://www.aceexplorer.com/
  • AOL Explorer (MSIE; Windows XP SP2)
    Expected behavior: Full site support.  Full Windows Media support (Windows Media Player 10/11; Windows).
    http://downloads.channel.aol.com/browser
  • Avant Browser (MSIE; Windows XP SP2)
    Expected behavior: Full site support.  Full Windows Media support (Windows Media Player 10/11; Windows).
    http://www.avantbrowser.com/
  • iCab 4.x (Mac OS X 10.4)
    Full viewing support, moderate edit support.  RSS Feed support.  Full Windows Media support (Flip4Mac; Mac OS X)
    http://www.icab.de/
  • Maxthon (MSIE/Gecko; Windows XP SP2)
    Expected behavior: Full site support.  Full Windows Media support (Windows Media Player 10/11; Windows).
    http://www.maxthon.com/
  • MSN Explorer (MSIE; Windows XP SP2)
    Expected behavior: Full site support.  Full Windows Media support (Windows Media Player 10/11; Windows).
    http://explorer.msn.com/install.htm
  • NeoPlanet (MSIE; Windows XP SP2)
    Expected behavior: Full site support.  Full Windows Media support (Windows Media Player 10/11; Windows).
    http://www.neoplanet.com/
  • NetCaptor (MSIE; Windows XP SP2)
    Expected behavior: Full site support.  Full Windows Media support (Windows Media Player 10/11; Windows).
    http://www.netcaptor.com/
  • Netscape 8.x (MSIE/Gecko; Windows XP SP2)
    Expected behavior: Full site support.  Full Windows Media support (Windows Media Player 10/11; Windows).
    http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/
  • OmniWeb 5.x (WebCore; Mac OS X)
    Expected behavior: Full viewing support, limited edit support.  Based on WebCore version, possible moderate editing support.  RSS Feed support.    Full Windows Media support (Flip4Mac; Mac OS X).
    http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/
  • Sun Web Browser (Gecko; Solaris 9/10)
    Expected behavior: Full site support.
    http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/

Platforms we do not test or verify at the present time:

NOTE: While we do support the use of our website on beta browsers on some platforms, until the browser becomes an official release we will not support beta browsers on all platforms.  The functionality of a particular browser on a supported platform probably is correlated to its behavior on other platforms.

Definitions of graded browsing:
Different browsers are supported at different levels.  Largely, lower ratings exist due to a lacking of functionality implemented within the browser, particularly centered around the HTML content editor functionality.  The grades are explained below:

  • Full site support.  The browser offers full viewing support and full editing support including the HTML content editor areas.
  • Full text-based viewing support.  The browser shows all text content with no styling information.  No images or colors are rendered.
  • Limited viewing support.  The browser shows all text content, but styling information may not be rendered.
  • Full viewing support.  The browser offers full viewing support of all content within the site, both when logged in or not logged in.
  • Moderate editing support.  The browser offers editting support of all content areas including limited support within the HTML content editor.
  • Limited edit support.  The browser offers editting support of most content other than the HTML content editor areas.  This may include treeview, listview, and dialog features.
  • RSS Feed support.  The browser detects RSS Feeds on the displayed page and offers synchronization or bookmarking of content.
  • RSS Feed support with enclosures.  The browser detects RSS Feeds on the displayed page and offers synchronization or bookmarking of content.  If the feed contains links to music or data files, the browser supports automatically downloading the linked content.

Comments regarding Windows Media Support:
Windows Media support, including media streaming, is available using Windows Media Player 9, 10, or 11 on Windows, Flip4Mac 2.1 on Mac OS X platforms, or KMPlayer/Totem Movie Player on Linux platforms.  Video streaming is not presently supported in KMPlayer or Totem Movie Player.  While some browsers will display media files without any prompts, some browsers require a file download, clicking "Open", or possibly save a file and then double-click to launch. 

NOTE: Support displayed in italics has not yet been verified, but is expected based on platform.

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