I have occasionally posted regarding the characteristics of various Web browsers. Since recently the first release of Netscape 6 was posted (previously known as Mozilla) I thought I would report on some aspects of its behaviour. We have created a little test page at http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/chemime/tests/ which attempts to test various ways of invoking chemical content, both legacy and the forward looking XML variety. Netscape 4 has some problems with HTML 4 standards, particularly tests 11-13. As it happens, Internet Explorer 5.0/5.5 does not do at all better on these tests, implying that proper support for the HTML 4 standard is patchy. There is ONE browser that did pass the tests, icab for Macintosh! Now I find that Netscape 6 for Mac (not tried Windows yet) sort of passes these tests. Test 11 is fine; Test 12 only fails because the Chime plugin is not happy with Netscape 6 (this may be different on Windows). Netscape 6 is not yet totally happy with XML (we have another set of tests for this which I will release shortly) but seems to be getting there! When its finished, it looks like it will go a long way to catching up with IE5, and in areas such as mobile phones etc, may even overtake it! By the way, does anyone have any chemical pages written in WML (Wireless markup language, essentially a very simple HTML). I note in this context that "basic" XHTML is also being proposed for wireless devices. -- 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)