I attended a small proportion of this conference yesterday. Points I noted were a) The release of a Web version of STN http://stneasy.fiz-karsruhe.de (+ USA and Japan sites) 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. c) For UK users, the release of BIDS via the Web; http://www.bids.ac.uk/ISI which is a significant improvement on the Telnet interface hitherto used. In short, pretty much everyone is rapidly providing an Web interface, although I also note greatly excessive use of multiple gif images to create a visual effect, rather than what I would regard as more effective use of text. STNEasy for example takes an age to download from Karlsruhe (congestion in the Munich area!) largely because of these wretched gif images. Its a search interface for heavens sake, so why not download the FORM html, and scrap all the pretty but largely useless images. The "lets sculpt a pretty bevelled button" in 2k bytes, rather than take 2 bytes to write out "go" syndrome is going strong! I might add these pages are unfathomable with suppression of gif images. Oh, and while I am on about my pet hates on Web pages, how about the non-wrapping page that requires full screen display on a 17" monitor to display the page in full because its designer happened to have a 21" monitor at their disposal. Henry Rzepa. +44 171 594 5774 (Office) +44 594 5804 (Fax) ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)