I have just noticed that CambridgeSoft have released Chem3D Net plugin. It supports many types of chemical MIME type files, and the display allows various interesting features not supported by other software, ie the ability to measure geometries. It also reads Gaussian checkpoint files, and allows surface rendering etc. Both Mac and PC versions appear available. Chem3D Net does not however appear to support Rasmol/CSML scripts, and thus all those nifty buttons to highlite functional groups etc that some people have authored to work with eg Chime will not work.

It appears to be compatible at the HTML level with eg Chime.

Invoke http://www.camsoft.com/plugins/ and click on "Free downloads"

Henry highlights a problem that I shall mention in my postponed virtual lecture (http://chemweb.vei.co.uk/) which uses the Chem3D plug-ins. Indeed the various plug-in versions do work on both Macs and PCs, very well in fact. Perhaps someone better at JavaScript than me could write a utility script to send back different documents according to which plug-in actually is installed? Dr Mark J Winter (Director of Studies) Department of Chemistry, The University, Sheffield S3 7HF, England tel: +44 (0)114 222 9304 fax: +44 (0)114 222 9303 e-m: mark.winter@sheffield.ac.uk http://www.shef.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/mjw/mark-winter.html WebElements is the periodic table on the world-wide web: http://www.shef.ac.uk/chemistry/web-elements/ The Sheffield Chemdex is a listing of chemistry sites on the world-wide web: http://www.shef.ac.uk/chemistry/chemdex/ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)