Right now you can get full functionality of iLabs 3 using Netscape and internet Explorer. It also works fine with Camino. If you are using an RSS enabled browser (like Firefox) you might notice that when you view your iLab you can subscribe to an RSS feed. With this you can get updates when changes are made to your iLab (for example bulletin board postings, document uploads, etc). It doesn't tell you exactly what the changes were, but it does tell you which bricks were changed. Ideally, we could continue to refine this feature to get better granularity of updates.

Here is a basic overview:
URL: http://ilabs.inquiry.uiuc.edu/rss/.rss (example: http://ilabs.inquiry.uiuc.edu/rss/cameron.rss).

You'll receive recent changes to the iLab (within the last 24 hours) categorized by brick. You'll see notifications like "3 updates in Bulletin Board."  The permissions are ignored for the time being, but this is not such a problem as it doesn't show details of the changes yet, just tallies of how many changes have been made.