Techne

I managed to get the Hengwrt Digital Chaucer working. I'm pretty sure the problem was that the CD contains an older version of the Anastasia software, which is essentially a web server that tells Internet Explorer what to display in frames depending on what you choose to look at. My guess is that it works in the library because they already have the newer version of Anastasia installed. Anyway, I now have it running on my home machine, which is Windows XP with Internet Explorer 7.0. I have also confirmed that it works with Firefox version 1.5, which I only downloaded in an act of pure charity for verifying functionality for all of you Mozilla people. I will test it on my Vista laptop as soon as I go back to the classroom and get the power cord that I left plugged in the wall.

Basically, I downloaded the "Running the Hengwrt Research Edition from your hard disc (Windows and Mac)" section of this page: http://www.sd-editions.com/anastasia/fixes/index.html. The fringe benefit is that you don't need the CD to run get to the content (you need to get content off the CD to make it work the first time). I suppose you are on your honor to delete the material after you check the CD back into the library.

In other news, we were talking about the annoyance of underlined text on Perseus today. In Internet Explorer, you can get rid of underlined links by going Tools | Internet Options | Advanced. The option is about a third of the way down. You can also dictate your own style sheet by selecting General | Accessibility. In Firefox, you can override underlining by going to Tools | Content | Colors…, and unchecked the box in the Link Colors section. To make a custom CSS file for Firefox, you need to find your Firefox profile (the location will be different on different operating systems--just search for "userContent") and change the name of the userContent-example.css file to userContent.css, then edit the file (I can't seem to get this to work, however, but it works in theory). If anyone wants me to post a detailed explanation as to how to create a simple CSS file or how to associate it with Internet Explorer or Firefox, let me know and I will.