Tech Note #1

This “tech note” is intended for visitors using Apple’s Safari 4.x browser.

This website is “picture rich.” As of this writing it has more than 5,000 photos. Most of the photos are referenced as HTML “image links,” i.e.,

...
... <p><a href="URL"><img src="image"></a></p> ...
...

By default, both Internet Explorer (IE) and Firefox browsers place a blue 2-pixel border around photos which are referenced as image links. When photos are “visited” (clicked on), the border color changes from blue to purple by default. The blue border around an image link serves as a visual clue that the image is, in fact, a link. The change in border color from blue to purple serves as a visual clue that the link has been visited, which is important to know as one looks through the large number of photos on this website.

If you use Apple’s Safari browser, and you do not see a border around photos which are referenced as image links, you may want to use a “.css style sheet” which allows you to see image links in the same way as users of IE and Firefox.

“Safari.css” is available in Downloads for this purpose. It contains the following rules:

...
a:link {color: blue; text-decoration: underline;}
a:visited {color: purple; text-decoration: underline;}
a:hover {color: default; text-decoration: underline;}
a:active {color: red; text-decoration: underline;}
img {border-style:solid; border-width:2px;}
...

The effect of these rules is to allow Safari users to see and navigate this website in the same way as users of IE and Firefox. Safari users may change the color of the border, and its size, by changing the appropriate values found in the Safari.css file.

To use Safari.css, download the file to some convenient folder, then start Safari and go to Preferences ... > Advanced > Style sheet and use “Other ...” in the dialog box to open the file. Note that this style sheet will then be used globally, not just for this website. To return Safari to its usual defaults, go to Preferences ... > Advanced > etc., and open the default style sheet (if any), or select “None Selected.”

Because of the large number of HTML files that make up this website, it is not possible to incorporate these style rules for Safari users into all of them at this time.

BG / 10 May 2010


Tech Note #2

This “tech note” is intended for visitors using Google’s Chrome 5.0.375.55 browser and Windows XP SP3.

If you use Google’s Chrome browser, and you do not see a border around photos which are referenced as image links, you may want to use a “.css style sheet” which allows you to see image links in the same way as users of Internet Explorer (IE) and Firefox. Unfortunately, the Chrome user interface is still in development, and the procedure to add a user .css style sheet is somewhat complicated. If you are a Chrome user, and you wish to see and navigate this website in the same way as users of IE and Firefox, then you may find the following information helpful.

1) To add a .css style sheet to Chrome, user style sheets must first be enabled. Assuming you have a Chrome shortcut, or a Chrome quick launch icon, right click it and then click Properties in the spill down list. Under the Shortcut tab, you should see in the Target box an entry that looks something like this:

“C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe”

Copy and paste this “flag string” to the end of the entry:

 --enable-user-stylesheet

The modified entry should now look something like this:

“C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe” --enable-user-stylesheet

If it does, click Apply. Note that there should be a space before the “--”.

2) Start Chrome and after it starts, exit it. Then navigate to the folder

C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\User StyleSheets\

You should see an empty file, Custom.css. Rename it to something like saveCustom.css. (If you cannot find the folder “Local Settings,” you may have to first open Tools > Folder Options > View. Under “Advanced settings,” enable “Show hidden files and folders” and uncheck “Hide protected operating system files.” Remember to disable and recheck these settings if you change them.)

3) Download the file Chrome.css from Downloads and copy it to the “User StyleSheets” folder. Rename this new file Custom.css.

4) Start Chrome using the shortcut with the modified entry. You should now be able to see and navigate this website the same as users of IE and Firefox. Chrome users may change the color of the border, and its size, by changing the appropriate values found in the Chrome.css file.

Note that this style sheet will be used globally, not just for this website. Note also that these specific procedures may or may not work with earlier or later versions of Chrome.

If you no longer wish to use this style sheet with Chrome, delete the new Custom.css style sheet and rename the empty saveCustom.css file to Custom.css. If you no longer wish to use Chrome with user style sheets enabled, remove the flag string that was added to the shortcut in 1) above, or start Chrome with a shortcut that does not have the flag string.

Because of the large number of HTML files that make up this website, it is not possible to incorporate style rules for Chrome users into all of them at this time.

See Tech Note #1 for more information.

BG / 8 June 2010


Tech Note #3

This “tech note” is intended for visitors using Apple’s new Safari 5.x browser and Windows XP SP3 Media Player.

Safari 5.x appears to have a bug in the way pages that have video content are displayed, which affects the ability to view videos on this website, and perhaps others.

Using Safari 4.0.4, or 4.0.5, under Site Directory > Videos, if you click a video thumbnail the Windows Media Player should open, and, after buffering, the video should begin playing.

Using Safari 5.x, the Windows Media Player does not open. Instead a blank window appears where the player should be.

To cause the player to appear, use your mouse to grab the right or left side of the browser window and adjust its width. After buffering, the video should begin playing. To view another video, click its thumbnail. If a blank window appears where the player should be, adjust the width of the browser window again. The player should appear, and, after buffering, the video should begin playing.

BG / 31 July 2011

This problem is apparently caused by an incompatibility between Safari 5.x and “Windows Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link Library” (File: npdsplay.dll, Version: 3.0.2.629). To fix this problem, go to

http://www.apple.com/safari/download/plugins.html

and download and install the “Windows Media Player” (Microsoft® Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin, File: np-mswmp.dll, Version 1.0.0.8).

See also Tech Note #6.

BG / 4 October 2011


Tech Note #4

This “tech note” is intended for visitors using Microsoft’s new Internet Explorer 9 browser and Windows 7.

When viewing Albums in IE9, photo captions are not always displayed. To see captions, click the compatibility mode icon at the top of the browser window. Because of the large number of HTML album files, it is not possible to fix this problem at this time.

BG / 4 April 2011

This problem has been fixed. When viewing Albums in IE9, it should not be necessary to use compatibility mode to see photo captions.

BG / 5 May 2011


Tech Note #5

This “tech note” is intended for visitors using Mozilla’s new Firefox 4.0 browser.

By default, previous versions of Firefox place a blue 2-pixel border around photos which are referenced as image links. By default, Firefox 4.0 places no border around image links.

If you use Firefox 4.0 and you wish to see a border around photos which are referenced as image links, you may want to use a “.css style sheet” which allows you to see image links in the same way as users of Internet Explorer (IE) and previous versions of Firefox.

“userContent.css” is available in Downloads for this purpose. It contains the following rules:

...
a:link {color: blue; text-decoration: underline;}
a:visited {color: purple; text-decoration: underline;}
a:hover {color: default; text-decoration: underline;}
a:active {color: red; text-decoration: underline;}
img {border-style:solid; border-width:2px;}
...

The effect of these rules is to allow Firefox 4.0 users to see and navigate this website in the same way as users of IE and and previous versions of Firefox. Firefox 4.0 users may change the color of the border, and its size, by changing the appropriate values found in the userContent.css file.

To use userContent.css, download the file to some convenient folder, then copy it to the Chrome subfolder located in the Firefox user profile. (To locate the Chrome subfolder, click Help > Troubleshooting Information ... at the top of the browser window. Look for Profile Folder under Application Basics and click Show Folder.) If Firefox is running, exit it and then restart. Note that this style sheet will then be used globally, not just for this website. To return Firefox 4.0 to its default, delete the userContent.css file from the Chrome subfolder, or rename it to something like “junkuserContent.css”.

For more information, see Tech Note #1; also

http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Profiles

Because of the large number of HTML files that make up this website, it is not possible to incorporate these style rules for Firefox 4.0 users into all of them at this time.

BG / 6 April 2011


Tech Note #6

This “tech note” is intended for visitors using Mozilla’s new Firefox 7.x browser and Windows XP SP3 Media Player.

Firefox 7.x appears to have a bug in the way pages that have video content are displayed, which affects the ability to view videos on this website, and perhaps others.

Using previous versions of Firefox, under Site Directory > Videos, if you click a video thumbnail the Windows Media Player should open, and, after buffering, the video should begin playing.

Using Firefox 7.x, the Windows Media Player does not open. Instead a blank window appears where the player should be.

To cause the player to appear, use your mouse to grab the right or left side of the browser window and adjust its width. After buffering, the video should begin playing. To view another video, click its thumbnail. If a blank window appears where the player should be, adjust the width of the browser window again. The player should appear, and, after buffering, the video should begin playing.

This problem is apparently caused by an incompatibility between Firefox 7.x and “Windows Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link Library” (File: npdsplay.dll, Version: 3.0.2.629). To fix this problem, go to

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:7

and download and install the “Windows Media Player” for Windows Vers. 11 (XP, Vista) (Microsoft® Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin, File: np-mswmp.dll, Version 1.0.0.8).

After installing this new plug-in, start Firefox and under Tools / Add-ons / Plugins, if you see “Windows Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link Library 3.0.2.629,” disable it. Enter “about:plugins” in the address bar, and under “Enabled plugins” you should see “Microsoft® Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin, File: np-mswmp.dll, Version 1.0.0.8.” Under Tools / Options / Applications look for the “Windows Media” entries; they should all show “Use Microsoft® Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin (in Firefox).”

See also Tech Note #3. Thanks to “juanchu” and “MarkRH” for suggesting this fix.

BG / 4 October 2011

For more information see

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Using%20the%20Windows%20Media%20Player%20plugin%20with%20Firefox

BG / 23 October 2011


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