Following on from my message to the ChemWeb. I have been contacted by Catchword to say that they are working on a Java version of the RealPage software and thus Macintosh users and UNIX users may well be okay in the future.
Firstly, the Catchword project has nothing to do with the CLIC project. The two are entirely different in concept. CLIC has as its prime focus, SGML derived technologies, along with "active" chemistry presentations; http://chemcomm.clic.ac.uk/ Catchword as I understand it, is simple replication of the printed page. Ie CLIC is Active Electronic Publishing, Catchword is Publishing electronically. There is a big difference. Its the users of course that will vote with their feet as to which one they prefer. As for a Mac client for RealPage, I contacted the company more than a year ago, to be told a Mac client was under development. Looks like this has been shelved. As for Java, that depends on how its implemented, but the idea of downloading (what will presumably be quite a large applet) as a pre-amble to reading a journal sounds slow. One could of course install the appopriate Java class libraries locally, so that the applet does not come down the network. This aspect of Java seems to have confused a lot of people, ie it does NOT always have to come from a network, it CAN come from a local disk, or from a local server or whatever. CORBA (Inter-ORB) is the underlying mechanism that controls this. Dr Henry Rzepa, Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY; rzepa@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@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)