Hello.You've got to this page because you clicked on the upgrade notice on the previous page. And you clicked on that notice because, well, your browser isn't very good, and that meant that you actually saw the notice. If your browser had been better, you'd never have seen the notice, and you wouldn't have ended up here. Now that you are here, let me explain why you're seeing this. Basically, since the beginning of the web, browsers have been rubbish. Browser manufacturers took it upon themselves to implement all sorts of proprietry bells and whistles in their products to entice users away from the competition, and led web designers to create a bunch of hacks to make their pages look halfway decent in all browsers. We web designers did this while simultaneously cursing the browser manufacturers for making us build several sets of pages and hoping that one day they would listen to us and make their browsers conform to the W3C standards so that they would stop being so rubbish. Well, that day has arrived. Browser manufacturers have, at long last, started to ditch the proprietry rubbish in favour of web standards that allow consistancy in structure and presentation, and that's given us all better browsers. The trouble is that not everybody who uses the internet have upgraded to these browsers, including you. So how do we tell people using the older browsers to download the latest version? By giving them a gentle push like this. It's nothing personal, but now that the better browsers are here, we web designers can build our pages correctly, in line with web standards. Unfortunately, they won't look good in the older browsers (as you've noticed) and we don't want to leave you lovely people behind. Here's the link to the Web Standards Project's browser upgrade initiative, which when you click on it will open in a new window. There, you'll find further details of the upgrade initiative and links to all the lovely new (and free) browsers. The latest version of the browser you're currently using is probably there too. If you're on a modem, and you don't fancy downloading a new browser (which can be hefty in size), then why not check out the latest issue of one of the computer magazines. They normally come with CD's full of software, including the latest browsers. Brad Brooks |