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but there may be no menu for your browser.

   Did you arrive at this page because you had trouble with the JSWare menu and clicked the link on the home page? Maybe the menu did not function or was not visible? Are you using Internet Explorer with script disabled, or are you using an older browser?

• For all browsers except Internet Explorer

   The JSWare main menu has worked for a number of years in all of the major browsers: Mozilla 1+, Netscape 7+, Firefox, Opera 7+, Konqueror 3.1+ and Safari 6+ are all adequate. If the submenus do not show when hovering the mouse over the main menus ("Software", "Code and Utilities", "Info and Diatribes", etc.) then your browser is probably several years old and needs to be updated.

Note to Opera users:
   If you use Opera it may be "pretending" to be Internet Explorer online. Opera was designed to send an IE userAgent string (which identifies the browser to the website) in order to avoid display problems. Unfortunately, that can cause as many problems as it solves. You can change the userAgent string in Opera settings. If the string includes "MSIE" your browser will be mistaken at jsware.net for Internet Explorer, JSWare will give you the IE version of the main menu, and you will find that the menu does not work.

• For problems with Internet Explorer

   This website is designed to work with Internet Explorer (IE), but Internet Explorer is grossly outdated in its support for web standards and its ability to process webpage "style" code (CSS). The last IE update was in 2001, and the last major update to IE's ability to display webpages was in 1998 with Internet Explorer 4.

   Due to Internet Explorer's limitations, IE requires its own simplified version of the main menu, with some features removed. And the IE version of the main menu requires script to function. If you have script disabled in Internet Explorer the main menu will not work. The menu may not even be visible.

   Although JSWare.net is a script-free site for all other browsers, if you want to access the JSWare website using Internet Explorer you must enable script. Sorry for the inconvenience, but the rest of the Internet cannot be held back by Microsoft's decision to ignore web standards and neglect their browser.

We recommend switching to another browser, for 3 reasons:

1) Internet Explorer has had numerous security-related problems, the vast majority of those relate to the use of script, and Microsoft has historically been slow to fix the bugs. So it is not advisable to enable script in IE.

2) Internet Explorer is outdated and incompatible. IE is the only browser that has not been designed to be compatible with internationally recognized web standards. It is the only browser that needs special treatment. If people would stop using Internet Explorer then webpage display problems would be virtually eliminated.

3) Internet Explorer has been effectively discontinued. (See explanation below, under the "Internet Explorer 7" heading.)

   • You can download the safer, more up-to-date Firefox browser. The download is only about 5 MB and Firefox is free software. Another alternative is the K-Meleon browser. (Both of these browsers are based on the basic browser built by Mozilla.org. The main differences between the two are in their graphical interfaces and the customizing settings that they make available.)
   The Opera browser also works well, and is also free.

"Internet Explorer 7"

   Internet Explorer has been discontinued, for all practical purposes. While Microsoft has released what they call "Internet Explorer 7", IE7 is still not a major update from IE 4, 5 and 6. IE7 will only run on Windows XP and Vista. Even there, it can only be installed on XP if Service Pack 2 and Microsoft's "Windows Genuine Advantage" spyware have been installed first.

   In other words, IE7 is not an update to IE6. It is only a mis-named Windows XP SP2 add-on.

   "Internet Explorer 7" cannot be used on the vast majority of PC operating systems. It cannot even install on any of the following:

Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows NT4
Windows 2000
Windows ME
Windows XP (only partially supported)
Apple Mac (all versions unsupported)
Linux (all versions unsupported)

   Given that Internet Explorer has become a very limited, Windows-only product with version 7, any current or future changes to IE are no longer relevant to the Internet at large or to webmasters in general. IE7, therefore, is not specifically supported by this website and this website will not be tested for IE7 compatibility. IE7 users receive the same webpage that works in Internet Explorer 5 and 6.

   For full functionality on JSWare.net, use any browser except Internet Explorer.

   If you are using Windows XP SP2 and have installed IE7 - or if you have been duped into updating to IE7 by Windows XP Automatic Update messages - you can still revert back to IE6. If you want to do that, see here for details.

   If you are stuck using Windows Vista then you have forfeited a good deal of control over your PC. (According to the Vista license, Microsoft has the right to run spyware that makes clandestine online contact, the right to disable media files without notice, the right to remove software without asking, etc. The Vista license also says, "You may not work around any technical limitations in the software"!)
   And with Vista you are stuck with IE7. You will also likely be stuck with whatever changes and updates to IE Microsoft decides to impose by way of Vista Automatic Updates. So ... good luck. You can still switch to another browser, but according to reports, you may have trouble setting another browser as the default in Windows Vista.

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