Missing Links? Can't Find What You Are Looking For?
Please report any missing links or problems you have with this site to Dr. Patrick Logan (mayfly@uri.edu). A Professor in Communication Studies, The College Writing Program, and The Honors Program, Dr. Logan also maintains the upper level (home page and dean's office) pages of the Arts & Sciences web site. Occasionally, links break, and over time we discover that things may be missing or may be difficult to find on our website. Let us know and we'll fix the problem, usually within minutes of having it called to our attention.
Technology Used on the Arts & Sciences Web Site
The A&S web site uses contemporary browser technology (see below). If you are seeing this message, you have clicked on the link "Trouble Using this page" on the home page. Pages on this site will look distorted, perhaps indecipherable, and page navigation (which uses css-driven dropdown menus) will be unusable. To use this site, you should update your browser now. These links will take you to either Microsoft, (Internet Explorer 7) or Mozilla (Firefox 2), where you can download (free!) a current version. Mac users are strongly encouraged to migrate to Apple's Safari (3) brower.
Please Note: Although Microsoft's Internet Explorer is currently the most popular web browser, all versions (including IE7) are notoriously bad at conforming to contemporary web standards! For this reason, we suggest that you try the free downloads from Mozilla or Apple.
Contemporary web technology follows the recommendations of the World Wide Web Consortium. We follow these recommendations because W3C-standard's driven web pages are much faster, can support far superior layouts, and do not use technology which is being abandoned ("deprecated") by world standards-setting bodies. We are also working to convert all of this site to conform to the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative, so that by this Fall web users with sight or mobility limitations will be able to use our pages.
Although web developers are constantly working to turn the W3C's recommendations into standard programming practice (see Web Standards Project), not all browsers do an equally good job of conforming. By contemporary technology, we refer to the standards for the Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML), and particularly for the current version of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which we use. Although not perfect, the current generation of mozilla browsers do a reasonable job of adhering to this technology. Internet Explorer (IE6 and IE7) does not. We have attempted to use standard "hacks" to overcome IE inadequacies and to otherwise use "transitional technologies" to allow our pages to "degrade" as gracefully as possible in older browsers, but we have decided to no longer add the necessary page coding to overcome the deficiencies of truly out-of-date browsers. Again, please do yourself a favor and upgrade if you have not done so already.
Thank you.
