I had a look at Active Labs site this lunchtime (13:30 GMT) and found it straightforward to use. The applet(s) loaded in a few seconds and I had the pKa, logP and B.P. of acetone amd acetic acid inside five minutes including figuring out the structure drawing functions. I was impressed and for one would like to see more of this type of thing on the web. As for
NOTHING HAPPENED FOR 30 SECONDS.
well, what's so unusual about that? This is the WWW we're talking about - waiting 5 or 10 minutes to download simple html is not unusual. (not on this side of the Altantic anyway) We shouldn't get unrealistic in our expectations of things on the web - its unreliable - who would do a live WWW demo before an audience and with no safety net for example? ----------------------------------------- Dr Richard Singer School of Applied Chemistry Kingston University Penrhyn Road Surrey KT1 2EE UK Tel 0181 547 2000 ext 2471 FAX 0181 547 7562 ----------------------------------------- ----- 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)