| If your computer was recently purchased and came with Windows XP installed, or has been recently upgraded to Windows XP, then you may find that some parts of webpages may not
be visible using your Internet Explorer browser. This
is because some code within Windows XP has been removed by
Microsoft in recently issued versions due to an ongoing legal case involving Microsoft and Sun (who originally
provided Microsoft with this code). The removal of this code means that your
Internet Explorer browser may be unable to display 'Java applets' which
web developers commonly use to create interactivity on web pages. |
As examples of this, the glowing menu buttons which used to
be at the top of Gill's web pages use 'Java applets', as did
the Calendar on her Diary page. If you were unable to see any of these, then this was
almost certainly the reason. This will also affect many other websites you view
which also use 'Java applets', and you
may experience items which do not display on these, too. |
