This document describes what is needed to use WikiDot sites. General requirements are presented and particular browser support.
Short answer
If you want a short answer "What browser should I use?" our answer is: Use Mozilla Firefox.
There are numerous reasons to use Firefox for web browsing. At WikiDot.com Firefox is our reference browser and so far the best browser to navigate and interact with Wikidot.com sites.
Browser support table
| browser name | rank | comments |
|---|---|---|
| Firefox 2.0 | 9 | works very good, a minor problem with newlines in the editor, spellchecker a big plus! |
| Firefox 1.5 | 9 | used to be our reference browser |
| Firefox <1.5 | ? | not tested, not recommended |
| Flock 1.0 | 9 | works very nice |
| Opera 9.XX | 8 | almost perfect |
| Opera <9.0 | ? | not tested |
| Internet Explorer 6.0 | 8 | although works fine, highly not recommended |
| Internet Explorer <6.0 | ? | not tested but probably not working at all |
| Internet Explorer 7.0 | 8 | works very nice |
| Safari 3.0 | 9 | almost perfect |
| Konqueror | 8 | very well but minor glitches |
Rank is in scale 0-10 where 0 means totally broken and 10 means perfect.
At this point one thing must be clarified: the Wikdot engine uses a lot of client-side processing, i.e. runs a lot of JavaScript code and modifies page HTML content in your browser. This is the reason for some browsers not to work correctly. During the further development we will try to improve browser support for sure.
We certainly do not recommend using Internet Explorer 6.0 - although Wikidot sites should work fine with this browser, this has been achieved by using many tricks and workarounds but also a lot of sacrifices of clean solutions introduced by new standards which are not supported only by this browser.
As clearly stated above, we highly recommend Mozilla Firefox which is free, very secure, extensible etc.
Features that must be enabled
JavaScript
For browsing and interacting with Wikidot.com Sites a browser must have JavaScript enabled. If not enabled you can still read pages and navigate between pages, but not much more.
Cookies
Cookies are not required for browsing pages but are required for any advanced interaction such as modifying pages, posting posts on forum etc. Cookies are also use for identifying user sessions.
