Browser Requirements
The following Web browsers can display the special characters used in systematic chemical names and can wrap very long words (such as systematic names and InChI identifiers), and are therefore recommended for viewing the Compendium:
- iCab 4 (Macintosh OS X)
- iCab 3.0.3 (Macintosh OS and Macintosh OS X)
- Internet Explorer 7 (Windows)
- Internet Explorer 6 (Windows)
- Internet Explorer 5.5 (Windows)
- Internet Explorer 5.2 (Macintosh OS X)
- Internet Explorer 5.1 (Macintosh OS and Macintosh OS X)
- Internet Explorer 5 (Macintosh OS and Windows)
- Internet Explorer 4.5 (Macintosh OS)
- Internet Explorer 4 (Macintosh OS and Windows)
- Netscape 8.02 (Windows, in I.E. display mode, not Firefox mode)
- OmniWeb 5.1 (Macintosh OS X 10.3)
- Opera 9, 8.5, 8 and 7.5 (Linux, Macintosh OS X and Windows)
- Opera 6 (Macintosh OS, Macintosh OS X and Windows)
- Safari 1.2 or later (Macintosh OS X 10.3 or later)
The following Web browsers are NOT recommended for viewing the Compendium; they have problems that will probably be fixed:
- Firefox – cannot wrap long names (bug report has been submitted)
- SeaMonkey (formerly Mozilla) – cannot wrap long names (bug report has been submitted)
The following Web browsers are NOT recommended for viewing the Compendium; they have problems that will never be fixed:
- iCab 2.9 and below – style sheets not properly implemented
- Internet Explorer 3 and below – cannot display special characters
- Netscape 9 – cannot wrap long names
- Netscape 8 and 8.01 – interfere with Internet Explorer XML display
- Netscape 6 and 7 – cannot wrap long names
- Netscape 4 – cannot wrap long names, problems displaying special characters, style sheets not properly implemented
- Netscape 3 and below – cannot display special characters
- OmniWeb 4.5 and below – cannot wrap long names
- Opera 5.12 and below – cannot display special characters, cannot wrap long names
- Safari 1.0 – cannot wrap long names
Please note the following requirements for your browser and computer, if you want to see all of the features of the Compendium:
- Unicode support – for the following Greek letters, mathematical symbols and Latin letters with diacritics, which are used in the Compendium:
Special Characters
| Greek | Symbols | Diacritics |
| α | Greek alpha | ± | plus-minus sign | ǎ | a with caron |
| β | Greek beta | − | minus sign | ā | a with macron |
| γ | Greek gamma | – | en dash | é | e with acute |
| κ | Greek kappa | — | em dash | ě | e with caron |
| λ | Greek lambda | ′ | prime | ē | e with macron |
| μ | Greek mu | ″ | double prime | ǐ | i with caron |
| Δ | Greek Delta | ‴ | triple prime | ī | i with macron |
| | → | rightwards arrow | ǒ | o with caron |
| | | | | ō | o with macron |
| | | | | ǔ | u with caron |
| | | | | ū | u with macron |
| | | | | ü | u with umlaut |
- Unicode fonts – Windows computers with Windows XP, Windows Vista or later should be able to display everything.
Older Windows computers with Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT or Windows 2000 should be able to display all of the Greek letters and all of the symbols except triple prime, because they are present in the supplied Arial, Courier New and Times New Roman fonts.
Macintosh computers with Mac OS X 10 should be able to display all of the special characters, because they are present in the supplied Lucida Grande font.
Macintosh computers with Mac OS 9 automatically use characters from both the standard MacRoman fonts (such as Helvetica and Times) and the Symbol font to display all of the Greek characters and all of the symbols except triple prime, so large Unicode fonts are not needed.
- Frames – for some of the indexes.
- Tables – for the contents pages and the data sheets.
- Style Sheets – used throughout the Compendium.
- Graphics – for the structural formulae and the index navigation buttons.
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