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== Recommended Platform ==
 
== Recommended Platform ==
 
For the best user experience, we enjoy [http://www.google.com/chrome Google Chrome] and [http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ Firefox]!
 
For the best user experience, we enjoy [http://www.google.com/chrome Google Chrome] and [http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ Firefox]!
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== Notice: Internet Explorer Users ==
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The future of support for Microsoft Internet Explorer is currently under consideration.  It takes more effort to work around bugs in this browser than to create the content and support all other browsers combined.  There are a growing number of cases where it is preventing EB from improving the user experience with great new features and better technology.
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We know most don't understand or care about the reasons this, but sadly, in plain English, IE is a not a good browser.
  
 
== Actively supported Platforms ==
 
== Actively supported Platforms ==

Revision as of 12:37, 23 February 2010

Statement of Intent

We want everyone to enjoy the site. It is a huge challenge to maintain an innovative direction and widespread compatibility at the same time. We will always try to help regardless.

With limited test equipment, we unfortunately are unable to provide support for every situation.

Format

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Recommended Platform

For the best user experience, we enjoy Google Chrome and Firefox!

Notice: Internet Explorer Users

The future of support for Microsoft Internet Explorer is currently under consideration. It takes more effort to work around bugs in this browser than to create the content and support all other browsers combined. There are a growing number of cases where it is preventing EB from improving the user experience with great new features and better technology.

We know most don't understand or care about the reasons this, but sadly, in plain English, IE is a not a good browser.

Actively supported Platforms

These platforms have are highest priority. Just because an item makes the list does not mean we have a test platform for it.

Browser Operating System Can Test
Google Chrome / Chromium >= 4.0 Max OSX Yes
Google Chrome / Chromium >= 4.0 Windows, Linux No
Firefox >= 3.5 Max OSX Yes
Firefox >= 3.5 Windows, Linux No
Safari>= 3.0 Max OSX Yes
Internet Explorer >= 7 Windows No
Internet Explorer is hands down the worst performing browser on the Internet.
It is not compliant with many Internet standards and JavaScript performance
is more than 10X worse than FireFox and 20X worse than Chrome.
Microsoft is losing their monopoly, so we are no longer forced to bow to
their inferior technology.

Explicitly unsupported Platforms

We are unable to support these platforms. Items that make this list most likely lack sufficient technology or are so far away from standard compliance that we cannot justify writing an entire site for their benefit.

Browser Operating System Reason
Firefox < 1.0 All Was beta platform
Internet Explorer <= 6.0 Windows (all) Poor XHTML standards compliance... (improved, but still true for newer versions).
Internet Explorer > 0 Mac No XHTML standards compliance... bad!