If your Web browser provides options for local caching, they should be set so that the browser always fetches the pages from the server and not from its cache.
To use the JavaScript-enhanced or ActiveX-enhanced user interface (see section 4.2.2), JavaScript and/or ActiveX have to be activated in your Web browser.
To use the JavaScript enhancements, your Web browser has to accept cookies, too.
If you want to install and use
which are both implemented as Java applets, your Web browser must be configured to interpret JavaScript and run applets installed locally.
As long as the Documents that you download from your Workspaces can be displayed by your Web browser (with the help of any plug-ins you may have installed), you do not need to change your browser's configuration in order to use BSCW.
If, however, you want to exchange documents in proprietary formats (e. g. WordPerfect, Excel, Photoshop etc.) with other members of your Workspaces, you should tailor the configuration of your browser accordingly:
All files that BSCW sends to your browser carry an explicit MIME type. Instruct your browser to link the MIME types relevant to you to an intended action, e. g. starting a program and letting it open and display the file just transferred.
If you do not configure your Web browser adequately, files it cannot handle will produce a prompt asking you for the intended action. If you use one the leading browsers, it will allow you to establish "on the fly" a link between the MIME type of the file and the program to be used on the next occurrence of this MIME type.
If you frequently need to download proprietary files, edit them locally and upload the revised files, you may instruct BSCW to send these files with an extended MIME type. You can then configure your Web browser to call a local routine (you have written) that opens the file in the appropriate editor and uploads it to BSCW as replacement or new version of the Document, as soon as you close the file locally (see section 3.4 and section 4.2.7).