This discussion is interesting and it's good to learn that Chime will continue to work with IE.

However, one of the best features of Chime is the ability to add interactivity via scripts and I am lead to believe that this is not fully supported by IE and, therefore, that Netscape is the "better" choice. I have to admit to not really understanding why the Chime/IE combination does not work effectively and I'm wondering if this will continue to be so.

There are two kinds of scripts. JavaScript (which comes in about 7 versions, formalised as ECMASCript) and Rasmol script. Thus Eric Martz's Protein Explorer contains about 30,000 lines of JavaScript and another 30,000 of Rasmol script! The latter is only supported by Chime, and so is VERY technology dependent. It must surely be quite vulnerable. As far as I know, no other software developer has ever supported it (Chemsymphony did produce a Rasmol script Applet, but I dont think it was ever released). JavaScript, invented by Netscape, is not always fully supported by Microsoft, who favour their own variant called VBScript. Thus sites that rely on a lot of Java/VB Script, are likely to become quite OS dependent. A lot of banks for example state that their on line services will ONLY work with IE on Windows. -- Henry Rzepa. +44 (0)20 7594 5774 (Office) +44 (0870) 132-3747 (eFax) Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, London, SW7 2AY, UK. http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ 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)