I have successfully tried it, noting that it does seem to require JDK 1.1.6 compliant systems (Netscape 4.5 on a Mac for example is only 1.1.5). If anyone has seen similar examples of curly arrow pushing, please let the list know. I also note Mark Winter's statistics, which indicate that >80% of users have Java switched on, but only <40% have specific plugs such as Shockwave, often used in the past for such demos. I increasingly see pages which run Java in the background, so perhaps its a method whose time has come? I hope the confusion about which version of JDK any specific applet requires does not slow/stop this momentum!
The application has been written in Java, and is run from a web browser. At the moment, it is freely available to all; the title page is at http://www.abdn.ac.uk/chemistry/org/intro.hti. To the student, it is fully functional, and some introductory notes are provided (although teachers could provide their own notes, linked in to our Java applet).
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