This is the third posting on this series on the application of XML and RSS-metadata to the Web. 1. http://www.courseforum.com/projectforum/ is an interesting concept: "ProjectForum 2.3 is web-based collaboration software for workgroup/project coordination. The new version makes an RSS feed available in every forum for tracking changes with RSS newsreaders, simplifies page appearance and layout for easier navigation, makes it easier to refer to pages in other groups or projects, and more" 2. http://www.usercreations.com/spring/ "Spring 1.3.1 is an alternative desktop option that includes folder-less groups, desktop web personalization ... RSS-based news headlines, desktop ... charts ... and other features. The new version adds RSS transform for application/xml and application/rdf+xml MIME types, improves Friend of A Friend (FOAF) support, saves originals of transformed files and opens them when doing View Source, and more" The latter opens up the prospect of finding an "object" on your desktop (latterly called a document) and right mouse clicking to produce a context-sensitive set of actions that can be carried out on it (as for example if its a CML chemical object, calculate eg its molecular weight, or indeed its Hartree-Fock energy!) Both the above use XML (but neither CML directly) to achieve their design. One might imagine that the 19 year old design of the "windowing desktop" may be about to enter a new metaphor; it will be interesting to see which community adopts this first (chemistry ? ) -- Henry Rzepa. +44 (0870) 132 3747 (eFax) http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK. 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)