July 1996 - chemweb - imperial.ac.uk

Problem with Chime 0.9a Win3.1?
by Paul May 09 Jul '96

09 Jul '96

Hi, > Just downloaded Chime 0.9a 16 bit for Windows 3.1 (with expiry date 31 > Dec 1996) ... > There seems to be a bug when rendering and rotating...the top quarter of the > molecule doesn't get deleted before the next position is drawn so there's one > big overlap of lines....for example: > http://www.mdli.com/chemscape/chime/example/bucky/bucky.html > http://www.mdli.com/chemscape/chime/example/rotdna/dna_rot.html > The sample page is fine however: > http://www.mdli.com/chemscape/chime/example/sample/sample.html > I'm using Netscape 2.02 for Windows 3.1, can anyone else confirm this problem? Yep, I get the same problem. I think the guys at MDL tried to fix a problem of Chime not rendering .pdb files properly, but in doing so created another problem...? > I think this didn't happen under the same version but with expiry date > 31 July 1996... No it didn't. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Re: Problem with Chime 0.9a Win3.1?
by Tim Maffett 09 Jul '96

09 Jul '96

There was indeed a problem with the Windows 3.1 version of Chime released on our web site last week. This version had a bug (caused by a compiler optimization (thanks microsoft!)) which caused 'smearing' of the top part of the molecule display. We have released a new version of the Windows 3.1 Chime which fixes this problem. As a bonus the spelling errors in the menus, introduced a month or so ago, have also been fixed. This new windows 3.1 version of chime can be downloaded from our web page: http://www.mdli.com/chemscape/chime/download.html Currently only the non-installer version is available. This archive is only a little over 200k, but it does require some "user intervention" to install. Details are available on the download page listed above. We hope to have the (larger) automatic installation versions Chime available within a week. This version of Chime does not expire until 1997. We will have released the final 1.0 version of Chime long before then. The final 1.0 version of Chime will continue to have a free license for academic and personal home use. I apologize to those of you that downloaded the previous version only to discover the smearing bug! -tim Tim Maffett tim(a)mdli.com Principal Architect, Internet Technologies MDL Information Systems, Inc. ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Re: Problem with Chime 0.9a Win3.1?
by schlecmf＠esvax.dnet.dupont.com 08 Jul '96

08 Jul '96

Re: L C Willoughby,University College London // Just downloaded Chime 0.9a 16 bit for Windows 3.1 (with expiry date 31 Dec 1996). There seems to be a bug when rendering and rotating...the top quarter of the molecule doesn't get deleted before the next position is drawn so there's one big overlap of lines....for example: http://www.mdli.com/chemscape/chime/example/bucky/bucky.html http://www.mdli.com/chemscape/chime/example/rotdna/dna_rot.html \\ Yes, I can confirm this. I also just downloaded the "new" Chime(TM) today; likewise, I have viewed other animated structures which seem to be alright, so this may be a problem simply with the two examples cited above. I have Netscape 2.0 for Windows 3.1. Matthew F. Schlecht DuPont Agricultural Products Newark, DE 19714-0030 USA schlecmf(a)esvax.dnet.dupont.com ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Problem with Chime 0.9a Win3.1?
by ucca021 08 Jul '96

08 Jul '96

Just downloaded Chime 0.9a 16 bit for Windows 3.1 (with expiry date 31 Dec 1996)... There seems to be a bug when rendering and rotating...the top quarter of the molecule doesn't get deleted before the next position is drawn so there's one big overlap of lines....for example: http://www.mdli.com/chemscape/chime/example/bucky/bucky.html http://www.mdli.com/chemscape/chime/example/rotdna/dna_rot.html The sample page is fine however: http://www.mdli.com/chemscape/chime/example/sample/sample.html I think this didn't happen under the same version but with expiry date 31 July 1996... I'm using Netscape 2.02 for Windows 3.1, can anyone else confirm this problem? Thanks Charles L C Willoughby Department of Chemistry University College London ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Microsoft's Promotional Push
by Dr Alan Mills 06 Jul '96

06 Jul '96

Hi Chemwebbers, I am _definitely not_ Bill Gates' biggest fan, *but* those amongst you who wish to keep up with the latest web wizardry may wish to know about the hot offerings from Microsoft, since their impact vies with that of Netscape in the arena in which we operate. There's a big promotional event planned soon states-side, billed as - "WORLDWIDE LIVE - A special event for website creators, designers, and managers who strive to build the most compelling sites on the web. " Full details at www.microsoft.com/wwlive " . . . includes the latest information on ActiveX, VBScript, JavaScript, Java, Cascading Style Sheets, Internet Explorer 3.0, and the Internet Information Server . . " Best Regards, Alan Mills at Venus Internet Ltd, 24 Denmark Street, London WC2H 8NJ, UK email:alan@venus.co.uk web:http://www.venus.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)171 240 5858 Fax: +44 (0)171 240 5859 Providing Web and Internet services and solutions ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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browser profiles over the last 6 months
by M.Winter＠Sheffield.ac.uk 02 Jul '96

02 Jul '96

For your interest I enclose percentage browser stats for the last 6 months here. 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 MSIE 3.9 3.6 5.8 6.4 5.2 5.7 Mosaic 3.1 3.1 2.9 3.0 2.4 2.0 NetScape 0.9 1.6 0.8 0.9 0.5 0.6 0.4 NetScape 1 7.0 4.2 3.0 2.5 2.8 2.0 NetScape 1.1 30.3 25.8 21.7 18.3 14.9 12.6 NetScape 1.2 22.7 19.1 16.9 11.8 13.4 9.8 NetScape 2 26.8 37.2 44.0 51.3 50.4 53.3 NetScape 3 0 0 0.1 2.2 6.0 11.1 All other browsers are very small. Currently, NetScape seems to register 89% of hits but some browsers which are not NetScape register as such so 89% could be too high if I've missed some that show this behaviour. Version 3 (beta) was 11% last month. Version 2 is steady at present but the proportion of version 1 users is dropping steadily. My current favourite, MS InterNet Explorer is steady but less than 6%. Platform Macintosh 23.2 23.5 24.9 25.5 19.6 22.3 PC 64.3 62.3 61.9 59.9 63.2 62.6 Unix 11.9 12.9 12.1 12.4 15.6 13.6 The percentages of the 3 main platforms are holding fairly steady. 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: M.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/ ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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IUPAC Nomenclature on WWW
by G.P.Moss 02 Jul '96

02 Jul '96

Apologies for any duplicate copies of this message. I am posting it on several lists. IUPAC Organic Chemical Nomenclature ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I have added to my IUPAC Nomenclature pages a Web version of the "Revision of the extended Hantzsch-Widman system of nomenclature for heteromonocycles, recommendations 1982" published in Pure Appl. Chem. 1983, 55, 409-416. If you are not familiar with this it describes how to name heterocyclic ring systems with up to a 10-membered ring, both in the saturated form and with the maximum number of non-cumulative double bonds. Trivially named rings such as furan, pyrrole and pyridine are not affected. Also recently added to these Web pages was the full text of the IUPAC IUBMB 1983 recommendations "Nomenclature and symbolism for amino acids and peptides" published in Eur. J. Biochem. 1984, 138, 9-37 and elsewhere. These documents can be acessed from the home page for IUPAC nomenclature, see address below. Gerry Moss ___________________________________________________________________ Dr GP Moss Telephone: +44 171 775 3262 Department of Chemistry Queen Mary & Westfield College Facsimile: +44 181 981 8745 Mile End Road London E1 4NS, United Kingdom E-mail: g.p.moss(a)qmw.ac.uk World Wide Web server: http://www.qmw.ac.uk/~ugca000/chemistry.html IUPAC data base http://www.qmw.ac.uk/~ugca000/iupac.html ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Trial of Electronic Chemical Communications: The CLIC Project
by Rzepa, Henry 02 Jul '96

02 Jul '96

The CLIC Project. ============ This is a project whose brief is to produce a "molecular multemedia" version of Chemical Communications. The project has been running for about a year now, and one of its first products will be full versions of the keynote articles, which were introduced to the journal in 1996. We invite people to inspect the first such article by Peter T. Glink, Cesare Schiavo, J. Fraser Stoddart and David J Williams on "The genesis of a new range of interlocked molecules" and give us feedback, particularly on the style adopted, whether the "rotable" molecules are suitably presented and add value, etc. <b> If possible, could you keep the subject header used here so that we can maintain this thread in the discussion list.</b> Currently, it can be accessesed in several ways. 1. Via the "Home" page of the CLIC project on http://chemcomm.clic.ac.uk/ This is running on a HypwerWave server, and so you will find some extra functionality that we welcome feedback on. 2. Via a version at the University of Cambridge; http://www-clic.ch.cam.ac.uk/CLIC/html/c08349_1.htm 3. On the RSC Server at; http://chemistry.rsc.org/rsc/c08349_1.htm Those of you who are not in the UK, we would welcome feedback on response times etc. Many thanks 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. URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ (Eudora Pro 3.0) ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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MOTM
by Paul May 01 Jul '96

01 Jul '96

Hi, July's Molecule of the Month is now on line. It's diamond, and has been written by me. I know it's not strictly a 'molecule', but it adds variety to the list which was getting a bit biologically oriented. The direct URL is: http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/diamond.htm or from the MOTM home page at: http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/motm.htm Regards, ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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