Checklist for the electronic books

In the following table you can see, if your computer and browser is configured such that the ebooks run perfectly. In the best case you will check marks in each line. If a checkmark is not set, click on the text and read what are the consequences for the electronic books.

Please wait until all boxes are checked or have a grey background (takes a few seconds) !

Modern browser (Netscape 4.x or Internet Explorer 4.x or higher)

Javascript 1.1/1.2 or JScript

Cascading style sheets (CSS)

Java

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Java Beans

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Swing extension for Java

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Cookies (test requires JavaScript)

Windows operating system (test requires JavaScript)

Installing the Java Runtime Environment including the swing classes from the CD

If you start mdsserv.exe (either by hand or automatically) then you see the following dialog:

Instead of pressing "Start ebook" click on "Setup". After some screens you reach a screen with two choices: "Java runtime environment" and "Java runtime environment and XploRe". Choose the first option if you just want to install the Java Runtime environment and the swing classes. The second option installs additionally the academic version of XploRe (either on your harddisk or runs it from CD).