Technical Requirements

The Project Links course material is a collection of web pages, Java applets, and other Internet resources designed to help students learn how to use mathematics in many areas of science and engineering. While your computer may be able to view the Project Links material perfectly well as-is, you will have the best experiences with our material if you meet the technical requirements outlined in this page.

Module Modes

Some of the latest Project Links development has focused on providing different "views" of our course material. What this means to you, the user, is that our material can be viewed in different modes, depending on the capabilities of your web browser and operating system. Currently, we have two modes: "Compatability mode" and "XHTML mode". This page outlines the technical requirements for these two modes.

General Requirements

Screen resolution of 1024x768 or higher
Color depth of 16 bits-per-pixel or higher
Reasonably fast network connection (56k modem or faster)
A computer and operating system capable of meeting our browser requirements

Browser Requirements

Compatability Mode	XHTML Mode
One of the following: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 (or later) Netscape Navigator 4.7x (or later, including Mozilla) Any other plugin-capable browser plus all of the following plugins: Sun Java 1.3 plugin Macromedia Flash plugin Macromedia Shockwave plugin	One of the following: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 with Adobe SVG Viewer plugin Design Science Mathplayer plugin Mozilla 1.1 or later (or any derived browser) plus all of the following plugins: Sun Java 1.3 plugin Macromedia Flash plugin Macromedia Shockwave plugin

Compatability Mode

XHTML Mode

One of the following:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 (or later)
Netscape Navigator 4.7x (or later, including Mozilla)
Any other plugin-capable browser

plus all of the following plugins:

Sun Java 1.3 plugin
Macromedia Flash plugin
Macromedia Shockwave plugin

One of the following:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 with

Adobe SVG Viewer plugin
Design Science Mathplayer plugin

Mozilla 1.1 or later (or any derived browser)

plus all of the following plugins:

Sun Java 1.3 plugin
Macromedia Flash plugin
Macromedia Shockwave plugin

Other Software Requirements

Quicktime (or some other .mov player, such as mplayer for Unix)

Notes:

For the time being, it is very important that your browser has Javascript enabled. If Javascript is turned off, you may not see anything at all when you attempt to load a Project Links web page.

Questions or concerns? E-mail us at info@links.math.rpi.edu.