Photo Stream On Older Macs

Can anyone help me understand how PhotoStream works on older Macs (that are not compatible with iCloud)?
I recently started sharing photos from my MacBookPro (OS 10.7.5) and my OS devices. Family members who have newer Macs and/or OS devices can access and view the shgared photo stream without any problems. However, my wife can't view the photos because her computer is a PowerBook G4 running 10.4.11. Even when she clicks on the "You can view the photo stream on the web" hyperlink she still can't see the images, just alert symbols. It was my understanding that this hyperlink would aloow none Mac users to view the photo stream on any browser.
Because the PowerBook uses a G4 processor we can't upgrade to the current OS.
Any ideas?

I have now realized about the two different html coding languages. The website I was using before seemed to provide me with incorrect information now I have found a pretty easy solution.
Frank Caggiano wrote:
joealittle wrote:
The code on the website showed they use 'javascript' of which a piece of software called JAVA is required to run.
This totally wrong! JavaScript and Java are two totally different programing languages and have nothing to do with each other.
Java is not required for the iCloud or Photo Stream websites. So do not enable or download Java unless you absolutely need it and are aware of the security concerns with running it.
There is a very good reason why Apple removed Java from its distribution and requires the extra steps needed to install and run it.
Javascript is used on iCloud.com which Bob is using to share his photostreams. This coding language maybe disabled in his security preferences.
Bob, to check that this works you need to enable Javascript. To do this in safari go to... Safari Menu > Preferences > Security Tab > Tick Enable JavaScript.
Hope this helps

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