Comments Re Active Labs demo

[RICHARD SINGER]

I had a look at Active Labs site this lunchtime (13:30 GMT) and found it 
straightforward to use.  The applet(s) loaded in a few seconds and I 
had the pKa, logP and B.P. of acetone amd acetic acid inside five 
minutes including figuring out the structure drawing functions.
I was impressed and for one would like to see more of this type of 
thing on the web.

As for

>> NOTHING HAPPENED FOR 30 SECONDS.  

well, what's so unusual about that?   This is the WWW we're talking 
about - waiting 5 or 10 minutes to download simple html is not 
unusual. (not on this side of the Altantic anyway) We shouldn't get 
unrealistic in our expectations of things on the web - its unreliable 
- who would do a live WWW demo before an audience and with no 
safety net for example?





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