Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Browser Upgrade

Thank you for your interest to upgrade your browser. You will have a much better experience viewing the BIDMC web site with a browser which support web standards.

What do I have to do?

Your choice of software may be out of your hands. However, if you do have control over what software you are using you should consider upgrading your browser. Doing so will improve your web experience, enabling you to use and view sites as their creators intended.

The following browsers support numerous web standards including CSS, XHTML, and the DOM (a universal means of controlling the behavior of web pages):

Microsoft Internet Explorer v6 or higher (Windows) or v5 or higher (Macintosh)
Netscape v7 or higher (all platforms), Mozilla Firebird (Windows), or other browser stemming from the Mozilla.org project.
Opera v7 or higher (Windows, Linux)
Apple's Safari (Mac OS X)

What “web standards?”

The ones created by the World Wide Web Consortium – the people who invented the Web itself. The W3C created these standards so the Web would work better for everyone. New browsers, mainly, support these standards; old browsers, mainly, don’t.