Baka.ca - History and Recommended Specifications

Recommended Specifications Baka.ca - Version 3.5.3

History of Baka.ca

Originally, Baka Wireless' website (www.bakawireless.ca) was designed as an online billboard with no e-commerce aspect to the site at all. Over the past 11 years, the site has evolved into a complex and integral part of the way we do business. We have invested considerable time and money into providing the best online shopping experience possible to all our customers. We study as many online shopping sites as possible, and are continually looking to make this site better for you. If you have an idea, please let us know.

Baka.ca serves (on average) about 1800 visitors per day. Currently, we are moving to a more W3C Standards compliant site, which will make our site more accessible. With this goal in mind, we hope to fully support all modern browsers (as seen below). Keep visiting Baka.ca for new features, promotions and exclusive deals!

Supported Browsers

Baka.ca was developed for full compatibility with the following browsers. The browsers are listed in order of recommendation.

Mozilla Firefox 0.9 and higher
Mozilla Firefox is the next-generation browser from Mozilla. Firefox adheres to nearly all W3 Commission HTML, CSS and JavaScript standards and has a higher compatibility rating. Get Firefox

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and higher
Microsoft Internet Explorer is the standard web-browser used by over 85% of all Internet browsers. Our site is 100% compatible with this browser. Get Internet Explorer

Opera 7.5x and higher
Opera adhears to all W3 Commision HTML, CSS and JavaScript standards and has the highest compatibility rating. We have tested extensively with Opera 7.5x and Opera 8.x. Get Opera

Netscape 7 and higher
Netscape 7 uses the fast and highly efficient Gecko engine which adheres to all W3 Commission HTML, CSS and JavaScript standards. Get Netscape

Mozilla 1.5+
Mozilla is an all-in-one application suite. Mozilla uses the Gecko engine which adheres to nearly all W3 Commission HTML, CSS and JavaScript standards. Get Mozilla

Un-Supported Browsers

There are known problems with the following browsers when ordering online at Baka.ca. The following are not recommended.

Netscape 4.x and lower
Unfortunately, all of the Netscape 4 (or lower) series browsers have problems with our site stemming from incomplete support of CSS and JavaScript. These problems are never avoidable and orders of any kind cannot be placed while using this browser.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x and lower
Unfortunately, all of the Internet Explorer 5.x (or lower) series browsers have problems with our site stemming from incomplete support of CSS and JavaScript. These problems are sometimes avoidable, but the browser may not allow you to continue while ordering a phone.

Optional Plugins

Macromedia Flash Player version 6
Baka.ca uses Macromedia Flash version 6 in some places in the site.
Our Coverage Map and one of Our Ads are in this format.

Adobe Acrobat version 6
Baka.ca uses Adobe Acrobat for some downloadable content like Flyers and Manuals.
Our voice2data Newsletter is also in this format.

Apple QuickTime Player version 6
All video available on Baka.ca is compressed with Apple QuickTime version 6.
Two of our Ads are in this format.

Screen Resolution

Baka.ca is intended to be viewed on screens of 800 pixels wide by 600 pixels tall or larger.
If you are using a small screen, or a low resolution, we recommended you Maximize the browser window.

Internet Connection

Baka.ca is designed with bandwidth in mind, and all images are reduced in filesize prior to upload.
The average page on our site takes 5 seconds to load on a 56k Dial-up Internet connection.
Cable or DSL connections load the average page in less than 1 second.