After a period of relatively little change in the browser stakes (ie Netscape about 40%, IE about 60%), I note with interest that at least two "new" versions of browsers are nearing completion. iCab (which is a Mac only: http://www.icab.de/ )) browser now at 1.8, seems to support eg the Chime and Chem3D chemistry plugins fairly well. iCab works some many (most?) chemistry types, but apparently does not like some data sets. It works fine on http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/ which contains a pdb file embedded. iCab is interesting because it supports HTML version 4, including a nice <object> cascade which can cascade down your list of "installed" chemistry until it finds something you can support. Hence if no e.g. Chime to render the pdb file, then pass on to eg a Java attempt. If that is blocked, then pass to eg a GIF image, and finally eg text. Finally, the thing done "properly"! Also, I note with interest that Mozilla M12 (aka Netscape 5) is finally looking like a product nearing completion. It crashes on my system in trying to render a Chime pdb file. Anyone else have any experiences? Get it from http://www.mozilla.org/ I note that like IE 5 (and very shortly 5.5? ) Mozilla contains an XML parser, and does some very nice things with stylesheets! To conclude, I might mention Amaya 2.4, which is at http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ supports HTML 4, XHTML, stylesheets, and MathML (but not plugins!). It also has a nice built in editor. Actually, this feature of a validating component, is also part of iCab, and probably Mozilla. Henry Rzepa. +44 (0)20 7594 5774 (Office) +44 (0)20 7594 5804 (Fax) Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, London, SW7 2AY, UK. http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)