Following my posting regarding new Web based interfaces to databases,
I know know that Netfire is actually available now;
http://www.beilstein.com/netfire/netfire.html
Dr Henry Rzepa, Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY;
rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk; Tel (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171 594 5804.
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Dear Dr. Rzepa, thanks for your report on Online and your mention of NetFire. The application is accessible directly from the Beilstein web server: www.beilstein.com/ . Click on the product name shown in the front page announcement, and a hyperlink takes you directly to the NetFire server.
Best regards,
Jorge Manrique
Beilstein Information Systems, Inc.
jmanrique(a)beilstein.com
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b) The announcement of Beilstein Netfire, which provides
full abstracts.
No URL yet given. Interestingly, Netfire uses the
<font face=symbol>a</font> markup for Greek letters.
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For your interest I enclose percentage browser stats for the last 11
months. There's all sorts of reasons why these numbers aren't scientific
but the apparent trends are interesting anyway. You may find these numbers
helpful when deciding what features to implement on your pages.
Browsers vers Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov
MSIE all 3.9 3.6 5.8 6.4 5.2 5.7 7.3 7.5 9.8 10.2 12.1
Mosaic al 3.1 3.1 2.9 3.0 2.4 2.0 1.8 1.6 1.1 0.8 0.6
NetScape 0.9 1.6 0.8 0.9 0.5 0.6 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.1
NetScape 1 7.0 4.2 3.0 2.5 2.8 2.0 1.1 0.9 1.0 0.8 0.6
NetScape 1.1 30.3 25.8 21.7 18.3 14.9 12.6 9.0 7.8 4.8 4.9 3.6
NetScape 1.2 22.7 19.1 16.9 11.8 13.4 9.8 6.7 6.8 6.0 5.0 3.9
NetScape 2 26.8 37.2 44.0 51.3 50.4 53.3 53.4 52.7 44.8 40.4 38.0
NetScape 3 0 0 0.1 2.2 6.0 11.1 17.8 20.2 29.7 35.0 38.8
All other browsers are very small. About 3500 variants of browsers were
logged over the 11 months! Note the falling % for Mosaic. NetScape Version
3 use is increasing rapidly and is now more used than version 2. Version 2
is dropping as version 3 picks up while the proportion of version 1 users
is also dropping slowly. MS InterNet Explorer (all versions) is rising and
is now around 12%. This is at the expense of NetScape and the minor
browsers. About 88% of all hits come from [NetScape v2 or better + MSIE].
About 97.1% of all hits are NetScape + MSIE so it appears barely worth
bothering to use other than these for site testing.
Platform
Macintosh 23.2 23.5 24.9 25.5 19.6 22.3 26.7 19.8 18.3 20.6 21.4
PC 64.3 62.3 61.9 59.9 63.2 62.6 59.4 66.7 71.8 71.0 71.1
Unix 11.9 12.9 12.1 12.4 15.6 13.6 12.6 12.1 9.0 7.4 6.5
At first sight it looks as though UNIX users are disappearing, but it's
more likely that they aren't, rather that PC/Mac users are increasing more
rapidly.
PS - Style sheets work well in MSIE on the Mac. Assume they will be more
popular very soon.
Dr Mark J Winter (Deputy Head of Department, Director of Studies)
Department of Chemistry, The University, Sheffield S3 7HF, England
tel: +44 (0)114 282 4498
fax: +44 (0)114 273 8673
e-m: mark.winter(a)sheffield.ac.uk
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/staff/mjw/mark-winter.html
WebElements is the periodic table on the world-wide web:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/web-elements/
The Sheffield Chemdex is a listing of chemistry sites on the world-wide web:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/chemdex/
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Hi,
December's molecule of the month is now ready for your inspection.
It's really a collection of molecules, the helicenes, which are
spiral benzologues of phenanthrene, with some pretty amazing
structures. This contribution is from Hens Borkent at the CAOS/CAMM
Centre in Nijmegen, and is the first MOTM to be presented in 3 different
optional formats, normal, Chime, and Java (Chemsymphony).
Check out these pages, they are a really good example of the state-of-the-art
in presentation of chemical information on the web in an easy-to-read, and fun
presentation.
Direct links:
Normal page: http://www.caos.kun.nl/~borkent/motm/deca.html
Chime Page: http://www.caos.kun.nl/~borkent/motm/decacc.html
Java Page: http://www.caos.kun.nl/~borkent/motm/decajv.html
all linked from the MOTM page at:
http://www.bris.ac.uk/MOTM/motm.html
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Note: The MOTM Page idea has now been working successfully for a year.
I still need contributions from people for next year...let me know if you
think you may have a suitable page. (I only have about 2 lined up from
different UK sites at the moment, and another 3 that I've written, but
the more we have, and the more diverse the molecules, style of writing and
site distribution, the more this demonstrates how the web can be a truly
distributed information network.)
Regards,
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Dr Paul May, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK
tel: +44 (0)117 9287667, fax: +44 (0)117 9251295
email: paul.may(a)bris.ac.uk
WWW: http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/staff/pwm.htm
"The avalanche has already begun, the pebbles no longer have a vote" Kosh, B5
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