As for
NOTHING HAPPENED FOR 30 SECONDS.
well, what's so unusual about that?
For what its worth, we have approached these people to investigate setting up mirror sites this side of the pond. As for earlier comments, I agree that a bad design is not the fault of the language but the designer! This particular interface is not perfect, but it is still beta software after all, and comments such as we have seen should help them. Bear in mind also that Java is designed to run locally, and does not have to run via a bad network. Another aspect is its cross-platform features, ie no longer (in theory) do users of "less common" platforms have to suffer a long delay waiting for their particular version of software (for example, I notice that the lates version of Netscape is 2.0 for OS/2 platforms!! 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/ ----- 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)