Our pages are designed primarily for the broad range of users who visit our site. We are aware that some aspects of our pages may not appear exactly as they did where they were composed, but those differences should be negligible. There are way too many variables that affect the exact appearance of a page to try listing here. Different browsers (Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, ...), each with their own different release levels, running under different operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux, ...), and a few other things all combine to produce their own variations when it comes to rendering a web page.
Most of the time, these differences are slight; the fonts may be different or proportioned a little larger or smaller, and some colors may have a different hue. But in large, the same page won't look very different after the combination of all your variables have been applied, provided that is, your browser can interpret today's web page composition languages.
Along with trying to present a consistent page-to-page appearance, certain technical factors were incorporated to optimize viewing for the highest percentage of our sites visitors. Your browser may not conform to recent browser capabilities for some reason or other. One reason might be the software release of your browser and some other reasons might be due to some of your browser's option settings. We will try to avoid dumping techno-speak on you while discussing these aspects.
Because a significant percentage of our visitors use dial-up connections, we try to keep the number of bytes it takes to show a page down to a small enough amount that allows most pages to load within a couple of seconds. Dial-up users visiting other sites have been able to go to the kitchen, make a sandwich, and return before their page finished loading. It is our intention for dial-up users not to be able to use our pages as an excuse for blowing their diet.
Nobody would expect an old classic car to run as fast and as far as today's. Just as today's gasoline is formulated differently than that used by the classic cars, today's' browsers process newer formatting languages that accomplish more than the simple HTML used by earlier browsers. You just can't expect an old browser to "go the distance" when it can't handle the features incorporated in the new languages.
Our pages are designed to support the following popular browsers at the designated
minimum release levels:
• Firefox, version 1.0
• Internet Explorer, version 5.5
• Netscape, version 6
• Opera, version 6
This list by no means limits which other browsers also perform satisfactorily
here; they are just the most popular as of this writing.
You will have to navigate a couple extra pages after you arrive at Microsoft's site to download Internet Explorer (free).
You can get Firefox here (free).
You can get Netscape here (free).
Opera is another browser gaining popularity. You can get Opera here (about $40-US at last look).
The obvious way to recognize ISP branded browsers is the presence of the Internet Service Provider's name and/or logo in the browser window. These browsers are modified versions of a more popular browser fitted with ISP customizations. Those customizations allow it work with ISP keywords and other ISP related functions.
It requires extra time to add those modifications. That translates to the fact that while an ISP branded browser may look similar to the non-ISP branded version, it is likely to be somewhat down level compared to the current independent (unbranded) browsers. In turn, that means it may not have the ability to use the newer formatting features when compared to most recent unbranded versions. Because ISPs do not publish support specifications for their browsers, it may be difficult to determine if a perceived problem might be our coding error or the browser's.
If you experience any type of problem with an ISP branded version, try using one of the independent browser software versions to see if the problem still occurs. Most Windows operating systems come with Internet Explorer already installed and we just mentioned where you can get some of the other non-branded browsers.
If you aren't familiar with running a non-ISP browser in place of your ISP branded browser, it is quite simple. Establish your internet connection through your ISP as you would normally do to read your email. But when want to go net surfin', just crank up the independent browser. It will find the internet through the connection you already established by starting your ISP's software.
You can still use your ISP branded software to receive, read, and send email while you use the other browser.
Text can be displayed without regard to whether a particular font exists on a visitor's computer when the text is put in graphic images. Instead of the letters of the text arriving at your browser on a one-for-one basis, pictures of the words are downloaded. But there is a big downside to using the graphics method to display text. Letter for letter, it takes a lot more time to transmit text graphics and that increases the time one has to wait for a page to download.
We use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to put emphasis on various parts of a web page, e.g., text, section headings, page links, etc. Font retrieval and formatting happens thousands of times faster than graphic downloads to display text. This allows text to be downloaded as genuine text for quicker page downloads while formatting text with many of the effects seen in graphics.
If you see anything unusual where text is expected, check to see if your browser is applying its own style sheet that may be overriding the page specifications.
Our scripts are written in JavaScript. We do not use ActiveX controls.
We use web scripts for several different purposes. We strongly recommend that you allow your browser to execute JavaScript in this domain! If your browser doesn't allow JavaScript to execute, parts of our site may appear strange and some things just won't function at all. Our site has no commercial interests, therefore we have no reason to install something in a devious manner without your knowledge. If you only allow scripts to execute at "trusted sites", it will be to your benefit to trust TCOC and designate it as such within your browser options.
By the way, if your browser didn't enable JavaScript when you came to this page, the links back to the page you were viewing will not appear and you will have to use your browser's command to return from where you were.
HTML code provides a simple method to automatically open a new email message when people select an email link. While this is handy and easy, it has also become the target of a technique used by those who collect email addresses for spammers.
Our site employs JavaScript to perform automatic email messaging that prevents web crawlers from collecting email addresses. We zealously protect email addresses from spammers and consider this the greater good when compared to the extremely small fraction of users who won't allow JavaScript. In order for you to automatically open an email message from this site, your browser must have scripting enabled.
If you don't enable scripts, one of two situations should occur when you come across one of our email links. In the first, you will either see the person's name and address spelled out, e.g.,
John Tall, emailname at someplace.com
and it will be up to you to manually open your own email message and address it to
"John Tall <emailname@someplace.com>"
or you will only see the person's name "John Tall" without any addressing information.
There is the possibility you won't see any part of the addressee's information, not even the person's name. This situation isn't intentional, but may occur should we fail to write the extra code required to show the person's name on script disabled browsers. If you find something that looks like it is missing a name or title, please notify the webmaster using the "contact us" link found at the bottom of most pages.
last content change: 01/02/2006
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