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Why does this site look bad?
Browser Upgrades
The following browsers support numerous web standards including CSS, XHTML, and the DOM (a universal means of controlling the behavior of web pages):
- Mozilla Firefox
- Netscape v7 or higher
- Opera v7 or higher (Windows, Linux)
- Apple's Safari (Mac OS X)
- Konqueror (Linux KDE Desktop)
- Microsoft Internet Explorer v6 or higher (Windows)
- Galeon (Linux GNOME Desktop) or other browser stemming from the Mozilla.org project.
You are using an old web browser that is not compliant with the web standards we built the new Bowdoin web site around. As much as possible we have designed the site so you may still access all of the content
The Bowdoin web site was redesigned in summer 2004 with forward compatibility in mind and unfortunately this does exclude older (Netscape 4.x, Internet Explorer 4.x, others) browsers from seeing the new layout and design.
What “web standards?”
The ones created by the World Wide Web Consortium – the people who invented the Web itself. The W3C created these standards so the Web would work better for everyone. New browsers, mainly, support these standards; old browsers, mainly, don’t.
What can I do?
Your choice of software may be out of your hands. However, if you do have control over what software you are using you should consider upgrading your browser. Doing so will improve your web experience, enabling you to use and view sites as their creators intended.
Please note that this page does not pretend to be an exhaustive list of browsers that support web standards, nor a test of browser compliance, nor a side-by-side comparison of various manufacturers’ browsers.