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We dynamically offer the best web-page your browser can handle,
so in the interest of best presentation, you should aim for a
browser that can display MathML. In general, Firefox and
its derivatives (Camino, SeaMonkey, Minimo, Epiphany, ...) provide
the best viewing experience and we discuss below only the main
families.
Our journal pages are manufactured to the highest web standards
available today are also available in a variety os specialty browsers
like the microbrowsers
Minimo,
Opera Mobile and
PocketIE; device based browsers
like
WebTV
and
Opera for devices;
text based browsers like
Lynx,
specialty browsers like
MozBraille and naturally
the W3C browser
Amaya. Of course your mileage
may vary depending on the browser, device and standards supported by
both. For more information check the comparison table below.
Anti-aliasing
First, no matter what system you use, have the anti-aliasing turned
on and well tuned.
Microsoft provides access to the technology of
sub-pixel rendering only if you use an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display)
such as a laptop, PocketPC or a flat display panel, and calls the
technology "ClearType". A tuning tool can either be run online
using Internet Explorer (only) here
or downloading the PowerToy tuner
here.
Follow the wizard that will be installed in the Control Panel and choose
the best settings for your monitor. Upon changing a monitor the
tuning wizard should be re-run.
On Mac OS X the technology is called "Font Smoothing" and accessible
via "System Preferences" and then "Appearance", which will give you
five choices for CRT's and flat display panels. The threshold for
the size of the fonts to apply smoothing should be set to low.
On RedHat Linux, go to the "System" menu then "Preferences" then
"Fonts" and choose the best settings for "Font Rendering".
MathML Font Set
Next download and install the MathML font set from
here,
then test it on this
initial page.
On the most popular platforms our recommendations are, in order:
MS Windows
FirefoxThe best viewing experience, not only here, but on
almost all platforms. With the best rendering engine for
MathML, it will provide the best viewable abstracts. You
will need to install the MathML fonts, as described above.
This set-up should work well with other browsers on the same
family like Camino, SeaMonkey, Minimo, Epiphany, ....
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IE 7.x/6.xInternet Explorer does not display MathML natively
but it can be brought to full functionality with the help of the plugin
MathPlayer.
SafariWill display HTML only.
ChromeWill display HTML only.
OperaWill display HTML only, and no special fonts are needed
for this browser.
Mac OS X
FirefoxThe best viewing experience, not only here, but on
almost all platforms. With the best rendering engine for
MathML, it will provide the best viewable abstracts. You
will need to install the MathML fonts, as described above.
Same set-up should work fine for Netscape, Camino and SeaMonkey.
SafariWill display HTML only, and no special fonts are needed
for this browser.
OperaWill display HTML only, and no special fonts are needed
for this browser.
Linux/Solaris
FirefoxThe best viewing experience, not only here, but on
almost all platforms. With the best rendering engine for
MathML, it will provide the best viewable abstracts. You
will need to install the MathML fonts, as described above.
Same set-up should work fine for Netscape, Epiphany, and SeaMonkey.
Konqueror
Will display HTML only, and no special fonts are needed for this browser.
OperaWill display HTML only, and no special fonts are needed
for this browser.
Web Technology Support
| Browser |
CSS 2.1 |
Java |
XSLT |
XHTML 1.1 |
MathML |
MS Windows |
MacOSX |
Linux |
Solaris |
| Amaya |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Camino |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Epiphany |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Firefox |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Explorer |
Partial |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Konqueror |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Lynx |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Opera |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Safari |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Chrome |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
PDF Viewer
For viewing the articles one needs a PDF viewer. There is a wide
choice of viewers with Adobe offering a viewer for almost every
platform,
and a variety of readers from other sources like
FoxIt for Windows, Linux and Mobile,
Preview for Mac OSX,
the family of
GhostScript based viewers like ggv, kghostview, and the
family of XPdf
based viewers like xpdf, gpdf and kpdf.
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