This demonstrates JSpecView loading via bbcode using jspecview tags

File pclanilIR.jdx width 600 height 400

This is achieved by writing:

[jspecview=600,400]pclanilIR.jdx[/jspecview]

The =600,400 bit gives the desired spectrum size while the file name to de displayed is included between the tags. The file is uploaded by authors who are assigned rights to upload attachments.

The motivation for this came from CHMEMCONF Spring 2006 following initial results with Jmol, and in particular Robert Lancashire's paper. With Roberts's help, what I've done here is made a small extension to the software I'm using here (Drupal so that spectra in JCAMP-DX formatted can be embedded simply with a bbcode type string.

Can't see anything above? Please consult http://jspecview.sourceforge.net/ for help. In particular, JSpecView should run on any system that supports Java 1.5 at least. Previous versions of Java are not supported.

I'll issue a note with more details on how to do this after further work.

I'm managing to make some progress on this area of the site, but a little more rushed than I would have preferred owing to what amounted to a denial of service attack from Russia and the failure of the previous forum software to cope. Several years ago I used content management software to combine news/forums/wikis and so on but the software was too early and clunky. After that I moved to smaller packages, one for news, one for forums, and so on. That worked but it was all rather fragmented. Open source content management systems have evolved and here we see the first steps to recombine the news, forums and so on pack into a single entity using a single system. I have a different system that I am still pondering for the future but I think this one is OK for now. So, what we now have is:

• News: (starting with the material from the previous news site. I need to recruit a few novice reporters for this so volunteers are invited to get in contact. We can pay a little for articles, but not top rate;
• Forums: starting with the posts from the previous forums site. All members from the previous forums site who made any posts still have accounts but all these members need to reset their password (this is a security measure, sorry for inconvenience);

This site now has the ability to display molecules interactively via the Jmol Java applet. This should mean that some stories or articles may come to mean a little more. As an example:

File H3N-BF3.mol/nexus/

The motivation for this came from CHMEMCONF Spring 2006 and in particular Bob Hanson's paper. With Bob's encouragment, what I've done here is made a small extension to the software I'm using here (Drupal so that molecules can be embedded simply with a bbcode type string, in this case:

[jmol=300]H3N-BF3.mol[/jmol]

I'll issue a note with more details on how to do this after further work.

Can't see anything above? Please consult http://jmol.sourceforge.net/ for help. In particular, Jmol should run on any system that supports Java 1.4. Previous versions of Java are not supported.

OK - the start of a new WebElements area that will bring together, eventually, the news site, the books site, and the forums site. It will also act as a location for chemistry content related to WebElements. The sort of thing I mean here is, for instance, sections on the chemistry of the various groups or periods in the periodic table, articles on periodicity, expanded disucssion of the chemistry of specific elements, and so on. All that will take years to add of course, for now, just testing the software.

If you find WebElements useful and you own a Palm device, then you might want to try PalmElements. PalmElements is the periodic table on your Palm. PalmElements contains a little of the information available at WebElements.

Use of PalmElementsTM version 0.1 is free but a password is required to use PalmElementsTM. You can obtain a password by registering (see below).

In order to get and use PalmElementsTM on your Palm device, perform each and all of the following steps:

1. download PalmElements (see below - you will need to extract the appropriate archive)
2. get TealInfo http://www.webelements.com/webelements/palmelements/tealpoint.html
3. You need the registration key "dalton" to load PalmElements

Please note TealInfo is not associated with WebElements in any way. You need to consult your Palm docs for help with transferring files to your Palm.

[Note added 6 June 2006] - This is pretty old and I'm not even sure the Teal stuff exists anymore. I have more

If you find WebElements useful you might find FlashElements useful as well. FlashElements is a very simple periodic table program created with Macromedia Flash that you can run as a small free-standing application on your Mac or PC. You can use it to display some basic data and to shade the periodic table according to some criteria. If you need more information than present in FlashElements, then just click on an element to load that element in your web browser.

The Macintosh version will run under System 7.1 or later (according to the Macromedia documentation - not tested). It runs under MacOSX in classic mode.

The PC version will run under Windows 95, NT3.5.1 or later (according to the Macromedia documentation - only tested under NT), and other configurations as well (seems OK on Windows 98, 2000, XP).

The current version is beta 0.3 (17 March 2003, to include the new name for element 110, darmstadtium).

[Note added 6 June 2006 - I need to update these files]