Technical Requirements for the Chicago Homer
The Chicago Homer has been developed in compliance with W3C standards
for HTML 4.0, Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1. See http://w3c.org
for details.
The Chicago Homer will display Greek properly with any Unicode font that
supports precombined characters in the extended Greek character set, such
as Palatino Linotype or Arial Unicode MS on the Windows side or the Helvetica
font that is built into OS X.
General Performance Issues
The response time to a particular search on the Chicago Homer depends
on several factors:
- The complexity of the search that is executed on the server
- The load imposed on the server by concurrent users
- The speed of network traffic
- The speed of your particular network connection (modem, cable, DSL,
ethernet)
The speed of your network connection makes a big difference in the time
it takes for the application to load. If you use a modem, you will find
that the application loads slowly initially. A modem connection, however,
does not make much difference to the speed with which the application
retrieves searches of average size and complexity. You will, however,
find it useful not to exceed the default setting of thirty browse lines
per screen.
Some kinds of searches impose a considerable load on the server and take
much longer to execute. This is particularly true of searches that specify
line ranges. Search time is different than the time it takes to deliver
results: some searches execute very fast, but if they retrieve a long
list, it may take time to deliver the results.
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