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.
Expect a lot more of this when style sheets start to be used more. Experience here suggests that staff were very slow to get to grips with style sheets in Word. I am sure that many people will publish poor pages using WWW style sheets, perhaps with good content, but with no thought for what hardware/software the reader at the other end has at his disposal.
One of the advantages of style sheets is that they *cascade*. Theoretically, this means that you as the viewer can override any (within certain limits) specification from the author with your own. So, if they provide a poor stylesheet, you can override some or all of it from your own.
This should actually *improve* matters Check out http://www.w3.org/ for the latest information
More specifically http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Style/. Also see http://www.microsoft.com/workshop/author/howto/css-f.htm Don't get me wrong, I think WWW style sheets are good news, probably, *provided* they are used properly, with a light touch, and with proper due regard for non-stylesheets users (the vast majority at present). WebElements is about to be styled, but hopefully unobtrusively and in such a way that non-style users won't suffer. The key word in the above reply is "Theoretically" and the key phrase is "within certain limits". Also: *Theoretically* "this should actually *improve* matters". We'll see the *actuality* in the next year or so. Dr Mark J Winter (Deputy Head of Department) Department of Chemistry, The University, Sheffield S3 7HF, England tel: +44 (0)114 282 4498 fax: +44 (0)114 273 8673 e-m: mark.winter@sheffield.ac.uk http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/staff/mjw/mark-winter.html WebElements is the periodic table on the world-wide web: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/web-elements/ The Sheffield Chemdex is a listing of chemistry sites on the world-wide web: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/chemdex/ ----- 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)