SticiGui requires an up-to-date standards-compliant browser. I recommend Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11 or higher. Current versions of Safari, Google Chrome and Opera work with most of the materials, but do not work reliably with the problem sets. The materials do not work reliably with Microsoft Internet Explorer.

In summary, you need:

• Internet access, for example, either through an account specifically for this class, another university account, a commercial internet service provider (ISP), a public or university library, etc. If your connection to the network is slower than 28.8Kbps, some of the demonstrations and labs with large datasets can take quite a while to start up (several minutes), but once they are running, they should still run smoothly.
• An up-to-date web browser that supports HTML 4.01, frames, cookies, cascading style sheets, JavaScript 1.4, and Java 1.4. All features seem to work correctly in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11 on Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS-X. SticiGui will not work correctly with older versions of browsers. Some problems will not be apparent except when you submit an assignment, so beware!

  Not all features work reliably with Microsoft Internet Explorer; moreover, Internet Explorer is a security risk to you, so I recommend that you not use it for anything. You need to make sure that Java and JavaScript are "enabled" in your browser, not just that the software supports Java and JavaScript.