
he new home of

was designed and implemented to be fully displayed and functional on most
modern internet browsers. However, the site will not display correctly
in Microsoft's
Internet Explorer 6,
or on earlier versions of
Internet Explorer. The layout of
graphical images will be incorrect, or a given page's graphical images will be missing entirely;
also,
IE6 appears to be
rather incapable of interpreting the various ContentPages of a MasterPage of ASP.NET, design
features which this site employs heavily.
The reason for this is that these earlier versions of
Internet
Explorer -
IE8 is
presently available for download - took a somewhat cavalier approach to adhering to the rules of
HyperText Mark-Up Language (HTML), the predominant
language used to create web sites and their pages. While other modern browsers such as
Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, Opera, et. al. are generally uniform in their display
of a web page,
IE6* requires
special HTML tags and JavaScript in order for it to display correctly. Unfortunately, in
this case the "solution" is worse than the problem: these special HTML tags and JavaScript
make maintenance and updating of the site difficult, and such difficulty will only increase with
time as new browsers and new versions of existing browsers become available.
It is for this reason that the decision was made,
in lieu of "hacking up"

site to enable it to operate on what is a dwindling percentage of browsers, to instead direct
our
IE6* users to this
explanation page, as well as to invite them to download the new
Internet Explorer 8, which this
site is perfectly compatible with. Download
is free, takes under 10 minutes, and most if not all of your current browser settings will be
transferred to your updated
Internet Explorer:
[*- As well as earlier Internet Explorer versions]
Alternatively (or additionally),

has
provided the links below should you wish to download a different (or additional) browser:
Thank you for taking the time to read this explanation.
Jerry Beckett
February 12, 2010