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.