Comments Re Active Labs demo

[Rzepa, Henry]

>As for
>
>>> NOTHING HAPPENED FOR 30 SECONDS.
>
>well, what's so unusual about that?

For what its worth, we have approached these people to
investigate setting up mirror sites this side of the  pond.

As for earlier comments, I agree that a bad design is not
the fault of the language but the designer!  This particular
interface is not perfect, but it is still beta software
after all, and comments such as we have seen should
help them.

Bear in mind also that Java is designed to run locally,
and  does not have to run via a bad network.

Another aspect is its cross-platform features, ie no
longer  (in theory) do users of "less common"
platforms have to suffer a long delay waiting for
their particular version of software (for example,
I notice that the lates version of  Netscape  is 2.0
for  OS/2 platforms!!

Dr Henry Rzepa,  Dept. Chemistry,  Imperial College,  LONDON SW7 2AY;
rzepa at ic.ac.uk; Tel  (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171 594 5804.
URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ 


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