In reply to my earlier comment on "invisible" inorganic crystal structures Mitch Miller wrote

I think you could work around the problem my coding

<embed src="mycrystal.xyz" display3D="ball&stick" height=300 width=300...>

This way the structure would initially appear in ball and stick mode.

This is fine if the viewer of the structure (me) is also in control of the web page in which its embedded! The problem I refer to is with third party web pages and was brought to my attention when visiting RB Young & M Mehl's crystal structure website at http://cst-www.navy.nrl.mil/lattice/ you'll see some simple cubic structures which will be displayed by Chime or Rasmol as blank pages until you switch display mode to ball & stick. I can think of no way around this problem - - unless its possible to set up Chime to display as ball & stick by default? Richard Singer ----------------------------------------- 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)