General recommendations

The InfoEd Proposal Form Preparation application, has browser recommendations for all InfoEd applications:

• For PC users: Netscape 6.2 or higher or Internet 5.5 or higher
• For Mac OSX users: Safari 1.x, Netscape 7.x, Mozilla 1.2.x, or Internet Explorer 5.1 or higher

We actively support these browsers on these platforms. While the InfoEd Grants Management application will generally function in some other browser/platform combinations, any combination not specified above may not display pages optimally or provide the functionality needed to fully use the site.

For best performance with the InfoEd application, we also recommend that users install the patches and upgrades released for their browser versions.

These browser standards are designed to meet as closely as possible the World Wide Web's Consortium's (W3C) guidelines for standards-compliant browsers (see http://www.w3c.org), while still accommodating the range of browsers in use at Missouri State University.

Other browser-related requirements:

• Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0: to display and print InfoEd forms, you must have the Acrobat Reader plug-in installed in your browser. Users still using version 4.0 are encouraged to upgrade to Acrobat Reader 7.0.
• Cookies: to use InfoEd, you must have cookies enabled in your browser.
• Javascript: to use InfoEd, you must have javascript enabled in your browser.
• About pop-up windows: infoEd uses pop-up windows to display some of its content. If you use software that blocks all pop-up windows, your ability to use the infoEd application may be compromised.

Known infoEd-browser issues

We have identified a few instances where specific browsers exhibit problems for EGMS users:

For Internet Explorer:

When Internet Explorer is used on a Mac operating system to prepare the InfoEd proposal forms, text entered in infoEd text boxes wraps improperly on the InfoEd-generated proposal forms.

For Netscape:

• When Netscape 6.2 is used with a Mac operating system, InfoEd forms cannot be approved.
• When Netscape 7.x is used with the Windows XP operating system, InfoEd forms cannot be printed or approved. Use of this combination is not recommended.
• In most of these instances, the problems do not lie within the InfoEd documents or software, but in how these browsers handle some kinds of Web-based forms.

For more information:
For additional information about browser compatibility with InfoEd, contact the Missouri State, InfoEd technical helpline at (417) 836-5972.