This site will work and look better in a more modern browser, but it is still accessible to any browser or Internet device. You should upgrade your browser, if possible.
This page provides information for having the best and less troublesome vision of MG pages.
We hope these tips can solve any problem you may encounter with the vision of our website.
General tips:
Define (if they aren't already) your preferred/known languages in your browser (test your settings now), as this will allow:
the automatic selection of web pages in your first language, if they exist
the colour-enhancement of your known languages in the explanation pages, making it easier to find what you want in entries like this
tooltips for glyphs in your preferred (first) language (JavaScript should be enabled in your browser for tooltips to work)
the Input of MG sentences using your own language(s)
the possibility to add new translations - in any of your selected languages - to the concepts in our databases
How to define your languages under..
Firefox:
Preferences menu, General tab, Language and appearance tab, Language: "Choose your preferred language for displaying pages" Choose... button
Internet Explorer:
Tools menu, Internet options item, General tab, Languages button, Add... button
Opera:
File menu, Preferences item, Languages tab, Add... button
Note that you can also add user defined codes, hence directly specifying MG language codes for your specific languages (which might not be covered by the ISO convention and hence not in the browser's list; for example, if Cantonese Chinese is not included, simply add 'yue' as user specified language).
You can find MG language codes in our language names page or clicking on the names of languages in the explanation pages. For example, the code for English is 'eng'.
If your browser doesn't automatically do so, change the encoding scheme to Unicode (UTF8).
You probably need some comprehensive unicode fonts to appreciate the beauty and diversity of the world writing systems. Some example ones are:
Table of tested browsers with problems, if any, and solutions:
Operative system
Browser
Problems
Solutions
Linux & Windows 98 SE
Opera 5 & 6.0
Missing support for different encoding schemes
Use Opera 6.02 or successive version
Linux, Windows 98 & Windows XP
Opera 7.02-
Linux & Windows 98 SE
Netscape 4.77
Linux
Lynx
Text browser
Define an external image viewer to see the glyphs. Also, using xterm in unicode mode (xterm -u8 -fn '-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1') and changing to UTF8 encoding in lynx' options will allow the display of all translations in explanation pages
Windows 98 SE
Internet Explorer 5-
Windows XP, Vista, 7
Internet Explorer 6,7,8
Windows CE (pocket pc 2002, 2003)
Pocket Internet Explorer
No support for animated gifs, they appear static. No tooltips.
Windows Mobile 6.1 (pocket pc)
IE Mobile 7.11
Animated gifs work but AJAX MGwrite doesn't.
Better use Opera Mobile
Windows Mobile 6.1 (pocket pc)
Opera mobile 9,10b
Cannot drag and drop to reorder words in MGwrite
Limitation in the handheld OS not in the browser
Linux
Konqueror 2.2.2
Unicode not properly supported
Upgrade to Konqueror 3
Linux
Konqueror 3
Windows 98 SE
Netscape 6.2
UTF-8 selected but it gets changed
Disable auto-detection (from View menu, Character Coding, Auto-Detect, Off) or upgrade to Netscape 7.02.
Windows XP
Netscape 7.02
Mac OS X 10.3.8
Safari 1.2.4-, Camino
Linux & Windows 98 SE
Firefox 1.0
Windows XP, Vista, 7
Firefox 2.0-,3.0-
Windows 98 SE
Mozilla 1.6
If you have more problems and solutions for these or for other browsers you use, please send them
First appearance:
Tue May 7 18:16:45 BST 2002
- | - Last modified:
Wed Dec 9 00:08:19 CET 2009