Internet Explorer being one of the most-used browsers, a special note to begin with. If you click on a link and find that you get a message that Internet Explorer has blocked access, you will need to say ‘yes’ to the prompts to allow the pop-ups to open and to navigate within the pop-ups. If you say no, then access to the Project will be crippled. If you say no and change your mind (because you are unable to access parts of the Project), just shut down then restart Internet Explorer.

What appears have have fixed the issue for myself on an ongoing basis is to turn off the pop-up blocker, and in the ‘Internet Options’ dialogue under the ‘Advanced’ tab place a tick in the ‘Allow active content to run in files on My Computer’ box. For people for whom this brief description makes no sense, there are two images at the bottom of this page to assist. Bear in mind that this may or may not work, this just happened to be one of the last things I experimented with that seemed to stop that message and allow the pop-ups to work as desired.

Those who use the ‘Opera’ browser may find that some links do not take one to the expected place in a file. It appears to have a problem changing file and going to a named element at the same time - what this means in plain English is that you will often find yourself at the top of a file and will have to scroll and search to locate the reference to which those who use other browsers are taken directly to. As this seems to be the only browser that has this problem and it appears to be the only difficulty that occurs when using it, it is left to its users to discuss a solution with the developers.

The Table of Contents page is the main entry point. The left column will be recognised as that found on the page of the same name in the hardcopy version. The right column has been added, and provides additional means of accessing the sections of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas. These new items are primarily indices; access can be made by the number of the Paragraph, Question and Answer, or Note, as well as by their opening words, plus an index of paragraphs related to each other is also available. Also new are the entries that lead to the English dictionary, to the Related indices, to decisions, guidance and advice from the Universal House of Justice, and the index to the compilations so far included in the Project.

Some simple but useful navigation is also provided as standard by every browser, while the Project supplies a limited additional means of navigation (see below).

As well as the ‘Forward’ and ‘Back’ buttons found in most (if not all) browsers, all the browsers in which the Kitáb-i-Aqdas Project has been tested use the same key-strokes and mouse actions for basic navigation, as follows:

In the popup windows, either use of the right-click with the mouse, or of the alt+arrow keys, or use of the toolbar button are available to access the ‘Forward’ and ‘Back’ functions of the browser for previously visited pages. The toolbar button, depending on how you have it set up, will also allow the contents of the pop-up to be printed.

In addition to selecting links via the mouse, they can also be selected using the keyboard – use the <Tab> key to move to the link, and the <Enter> key to activate it. At each press of the <Tab> key, a dotted line will be seen to move from hyperlink to hyperlink, indicating the link that will be active when the <Enter> key is pressed.

As well as the usual selection of hyperlinks to navigate from place to place, there have been three to four icons added to the bottom of every page, each with a text overlay. The first will navigate to the previous page in sequence; the second will return to the Table of Contents; the third (where it appears) will go to the Related index for that page while the last goes to the next page in sequence. On certain pages (e.g. the indices) the quickest and easiest way to get access to these is to use the <End> key.

An issue with the addition of links from the Holy Text itself is to not affect or alter the asthetics of the Sacred Word; i.e. to not mar the Text with underlinings/hyperlinks or other text “decorations”. Thus, a word that is linked to the dictionary will (or should) only be seen when the mouse cursor is held over it, when it will change from normal text to red text and the mouse cursor will change to the users' choice for a hyperlink - this is a link to the dictionary itself which, when the word is selected, will generate a new small pop-up window containing the definition.