Technical Requirements of School Websites
Minimum Browser Requirements
This Website is best viewed with the following browsers;
- Netscape 6+ or Archived Netscape Clients
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6+
- Firefox 1+
Download the latest versions of these browsers:
- Verify that your browser supports JavaScript and is Java enabled. Consult your browser help on how to enable Javascript and Java support.
PDF Documents
Some publications are available in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader Software installed to be able to read or print them.
The Acrobat Reader can be freely downloaded by clicking on the icon below.
or from the University USYDnet Software site. You will also find installation help on both sites.
Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information that a web site transfers to your browser’s memory or computer's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies can make the web more useful by storing information about your preferences on a particular site. The use of cookies is an industry standard and many major web sites use cookies to provide useful features for their customers. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. You can set your browser to refuse cookies. However, this may keep you from taking full advantage of a site. By default, most web browsers will inform you whenever a cookie is placed on your computer. However, You can disable the cookie notification feature in your browser. Consult your browser help on how to disable this feature.
There are two types of cookies that a web site can use : permanent cookies and temporary cookies.
Permanent cookies store customer preferences, such as customized graphs, last visited date, customer id. This data enables web site software to display dynamic content to a customer according to his/her selections on that particular site.
Temporary cookies are used to handle your username and password information whenever you login to the site in a secure session. These cookies are stored in browser memory only and never get written to a file on a hard drive. When you logout or just close your browser window, temporary cookies are wiped out of computer memory.
We use only temporary cookies for our dynamically generated webpages.
More about cookies at What are cookies? Cookie Central
