Enabling JavaScript

This page assumes you're using Netscape, the standard browser you'll find on university computers. If you're using a different browser, the exercises may still work, but you're on your own.

Copies of Netscape on university computers start out with JavaScript turned off. In order to turn it on,

  1. Choose "Options" from the menu at the top of the browser
  2. From the list that pulls down, choose "Network Preferences".
  3. You'll now see what the programmers hoped would look like a pile of file cards with tabs on top. Humour them. Choose the tab that says "Languages".
  4. Make sure the little box beside "JavaScript" has a check mark in it, or an X, or looks like it's been pushed in, or whatever it's supposed to look like on your computer.
  5. Choose "OK" or "Close" or whatever it says on your computer.
  6. You're done.

When you're finished practising phonetics, seriously consider going back and turning JavaScript off again. The computer gurus who turned it off in the first place aren't stupid. If you have JavaScript on, web pages that you visit can cause your browser to do things far more irritating than insulting your ability at phonetic transcription -- make obnoxious pictures run back and forth across your screen, send your browser into eternal belly-button-contemplation mode, mail thousands of electronic messages in your name all over the world (OK, they fixed that last one, but who knows what other hidden glitches remain to discovered by the unscrupulous). It's a good idea to have JavaScript (and Java) turned on only when you're visiting web pages you trust. So how do you know you can trust me not to do anything nasty (at least deliberately)? 1. I'm too nice to. 2. I'm not smart enough to. 3. I'd get fired.