1.  What Browser should I use?

This site is designed to work in any modern, standards complaint browser. Vistua.com and the Groupware applications have been tested and verified to work with Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and higher and all versions of Google Chrome and Apple Safari. This site is also reported to work in MS Internet Explorer versions 8 and higher and Opera versions later than 8, although we have not tested this. This site is known to have minor layout bugs in versions if MS Internet Explorer 7 and earlier. Please refer to our ancient browsers policy.

The Groupware applications may have reduced functionality in older browsers, the calendar application is known to not work correctly in Opera.

Video is a special case. Videos on this site do not use plugins but rely on native support in the browser. Only the latest and most modern browsers support this. All VNS systems have such browsers. To support video, you must use a browser that supports the HTML <video> tag. Please see the video information page for more information.

2.  What Plugins do I need?

You do not need any plugins. Vistua.com was designed to avoid plugins because it is our opinion that web-plugins are at odds with good design philosophy and should be phased out. However helper applications for viewing PDF and DjVu documents are needed to view those files. Vistua.com may link to pages that require plugins, however.

3.  What Resolution Screen should I have?

Vistua.com was developed for use in screens with a display resolution of 1024×768 or greater. Smaller resolutions should still work but will be cut off at the left or right edges, the site has been designed to require a minimum of horizontal scrolling in those cases.

4.  How Suitable is Vistua.com for Specialty Access?

For full functionality Vistua.com is intended for use in desktop browsers. However, a read only version suitable for mobile browsers is also available. Simply visit www.vistua.com on your mobile. (The Vistua Network Organization does not charge for this service but your cellular carrier may, please check with their billing department if you are not sure.)

Screen-readers have not been tested with this site. Text-only browsers may work with this site but are not specifically supported and are not compatible with the Groupware applications.

5.  Colophon

Main site backend is powered by PmWiki which is written in PHP. Site-design in house.

Running Apache 1.2 on FreeBSD 7.1

Various support scripts and tools are written in Python, Perl and Almquist SH.

Graphics designed in The Gimp & Inkscape, with optimization by PNGcrush.

Icons by Crystal and Oxygen.

XHTML and CSS are in use as well as a little ECMAscript.

We Recommend Firefox