which seems to support some things that chemists might want to see. Perhaps the most important is support for style sheets and greek. I wonder what the scope will be for the chemical community creating such style sheets!
Netscape supporting style sheets in late '96. I guess they had to announce it soon (couldn't be seen to being beaten off the mark by Microsoft) The public beta of Internet Explorer 3 (due this month) will support style sheets (according to the W3C style sheets spec - check http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/ for technical reports on style sheets, frame layout using style sheets (also to be supported by IEx 3) and some technical reports about tables as well) and DocObject objects as well (such as Word documents will be) as part of Microsoft's unified 'web browsing' model of integrating the web into the home system. As far as I know, only GNNPress (A combined editor/browser for Windows) supports style sheets at present, but once the big boys do it, everyone will, which can only be a good thing. Of course, then we have the font war. Netscape teaming up with Adobe to provide a solution and Microsoft going it alone. The style sheet mechanisms are definitely worth a look if you haven't already, (see above for W3C technical reports URL's). As for chemists creating style sheets - we'll still be at the relative disadvantage of not being an economically viable market for the likes of Microsoft/Netscape, or anybody on the W3C and so will get style sheet possibilities identical to everyone else. (i.e. for text presentation) Unless someone out there is willing to write a browser. Cheers Steve -------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen Le Hunte (cmlehunt@swan.ac.uk) Author of the HTML Reference Library, currently at v2.2 ftp://ftp.swan.ac.uk/pub/in.coming/htmlib/ http://hjs.geol.uib.no/html/htmlibrd/htmlibrd.htm - The HTMLibrd a WWW discussion forum about the HTMLib ----- 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)