Appendix C. Browser Settings

(version 1.5)

The following browser settings are provided, not as standards, but as possible settings at which the system works and looks as it should. Undoubtedly there are other possible settings which will provide an environment in which the system operates successfully. These settings are provided in case they may help you clear up presentation problems on your computer.

Settings in Internet Explorer: The examples in this document were captured from Internet Explorer and show how the application should look. If your panels look different, there may be one or two settings with different values. The following are the settings in effect when the screen shots were captured.

In the "View" menu on the Internet Explorer tool bar, the following settings are 'the usual': "Text Size" is set to Medium, "Encoding" is set to "Western European (ISO)". These settings keep the menu text in alignment with the highlighting as demonstrated here:
If other settings are in effect, the green highlighting of the navigation bar background does not coincide with the white lettering of the menu option selected.
There is another control in Internet Explorer that affects this correspondence of text to highlight on the Atrium navigation bars: the Zoom Level button at the bottom right of the Internet Explorer display. This should read 100%.
Use the down arrow to open the zoom menu and reset it to 100% if your navigation bars are not in sync between the highlight and the text and this control is not set at 100%.
Fonts: Select "Tools" from the Internet Explorer menu, then "Internet Options". On the "General" tab, in the "Appearance" section, click the "Fonts" button. Language script should be set to Latin based. (This is probably the default for a PC purchased in the US.)
Fonts: Select "Tools" from the Internet Explorer menu, then "Internet Options". On the "General" tab, in the "Appearance" section, click the "Fonts" button. Webpage font should be set to Times New Roman. (This is probably the default for a PC purchased in the US.)
Fonts: Select "Tools" from the Internet Explorer menu, then "Internet Options". On the "General" tab, in the "Appearance" section, click the "Fonts" button. Plain text font should be set to Courier New. (This is probably the default for a PC purchased in the US.)
Security: Select "Tools" from the Internet Explorer menu, then "Internet Options". On the "Security" tab, the "Security level for this zone" slider can be set as high as "Medium-high" and application will still work.
Cookies: Select "Tools" from the Internet Explorer menu, then "Internet Options". On the "Privacy" tab, the slider should be set to "Medium" at least.
JavaScript: Select "Tools" from the Internet Explorer menu, then "Internet Options". On the "Advanced" tab, scroll down "Settings" list to the "Java (Sun)" section. Enable (click on) "Use JRE 1.6.0 for applet".

Settings for Firefox: The following settings allow Atrium to look and perform its best. These are generally the default settings when the application is loaded in the United States. If Atrium on your computer looks substantially different from the examples in this document, you might want to check the settings to see if they are different on your PC.

Page style: select "View" from the Firefox menu. The "Page Style" option should be set to "Basic Page Style".
Text size: select "View" from the Firefox menu, for "Text Size" you have your choice to make the font larger or smaller as needed, but the font setting closest to the examples is set by selecting the "Normal" setting.
Character encoding: if your characters do not appear "normal" try setting the character encoding to "Unicode (UTF-8)" by selecting "View" from the Firefox menu, selecting "Character Encoding" on the sub-menu and selecting "Unicode (UTF-8)" from the bottom half of the list. If "Unicode (UTF-8)" does not appear below the line on the "Character Encoding" sub-menu, select "More Encodings" from the "Character Encoding" sub-menu and look for "Unicode (UTF-8)".
JavaScript: On the Firefox "Tools" menu, select "Options". On the "Content" tab, enable (click on) "Enable JavaScript".
Fonts: on the Firefox "Tools" menu, select "Options". Click the "Content" icon in the top bar, and in the "Fonts & Colors" section, click the "Advanced" button. Just above the "Character Encoding" section, turn "Allow pages to choose their own fonts" ON.
Colors: on the Firefox "Tools" menu, select "Options". Click the "Content" icon in the top bar, and in the "Fonts & Colors" section, click the "Colors" button. In the "Text and Background" section, turn "Allow pages to choose their own colors" ON.
Links: on the Firefox "Tools" menu, select "Options". Click the "Content" icon in the top bar, and in the "Fonts & Colors" section, click the "Colors" button. In the "Link Colors" section, turn "Underline Links" ON.
PDF documents: on the Firefox "Tools" menu, select "Options". Click the "Content" icon in the top bar, and in the "File Types" section, click the "Manage" button. Make sure the table includes an entry as follows: extension: PDF, file type: Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Document, action: Open with Adobe Acrobat.
Cookies: on the Firefox "Tools" menu, select "Options". Click the "Privacy" icon in the top bar, and in the "Cookies" section, turn "Accept cookies from sites" ON. Also, setting the "Keep until:" attribute to "they expire" provides faster response from the application at the beginning of a session. If you click the "Show Cookies" button, Atrium shows up in the list as "atrium.andesamazon.org".
Encryption Protocols: on the Firefox "Tools" menu, select "Options". Click the "Advanced" icon in the top bar and the "Encryption" tab, and set both "Use SSL 3.0" and "Use TLS 1.0" ON.


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