Sic Itur Ad Astra – Thus The Way To The Stars : 143 years of astronomy
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If updating/changing your browser is not possible, do not panic - all of the LAS website is still available to you and we are working to make the layout compatible with outdated browsers.
Slight change to the colouring of the website for Internet Explorer users
Please note: this only affects you if you use Internet Explorer.
Due to a bizarre bug in Internet Explorer I’ve had to remove the nice gradient shaded backgrounds in most places for those browsers. Due to the strange way Internet Explorer deals with gradients, certain unrelated items sometimes simply disappeared, e.g. parts of the account login/registration pages, plus sometimes scrollbars.
If you use an alternative browser like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox then you won’t have been affected by this, and you will still see the shaded backgrounds.
Edit: The layout of the menus has also been improved for users of older Internet Explorer browsers.
