How to view this lecture
The top left area of your browser window should display a video clip. If it
does not, you will need to install the appropriate viewing software into
your computer. There are three distinctly diffent products. The best
quality is obtained using Apple Quicktime, which can be obtained free of
charge from the Apple Web
site. The files associated with Quicktime video tend to be larger than
alternative formats such as RealPlayer or Microsoft Media Player, although
you may find the quality is not so good. If you are using a modem, you may
wish to use these formats instead.
Some of the slides also have molecular models associated with them, the
display of which will need a plug-in such as
Chime or Chem3D Net.
Slide Display
We offer slides in two formats; the conventional GIF format which the
browser will automatically display for you, and a new format known as SVG
(scaleable vector graphics). Particularly when slides contain detailed
chemical structure information, you might find the resolution of the GIF
image is inadequate. The SVG versions however can be rescaled to suit your
viewing requirement, and can also be printed to much better quality than
the GIF images. We strongly recommend for the highest quality that you view
the SVG images. To do so however, you will need to download the SVG software
first. This will install a browser plugin to enable viewing of SVG images.
To check installation is complete, view "about plugins" from the Help
or Apple menus, and check that an entry for image/svg is present.
Browser Versions
These pages should display without problem on all version 4 and 5 browsers
from Netscape and Microsoft. Version 3 browsers do not support the
stylesheets, but should otherwise display normally, as should the Opera
browser. The iCab browser for Macintosh does not support Stylesheets.
Specialised browsers such as Amaya should not be used.