Re: Webelements

[Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@boltz.univ-littoral.fr>]

On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 00:48:25 Doug Loss wrote:

> You're right, it's very impressive.  But if Kyle implements some of Georges 
> Khaznadar's suggestions (I'm thinking especially of the one in this message 
> <http://www.seul.org/archives/seul/edu/Jul-1999/msg00264.html>), I think 
> GPeriodic will still have something that's difficult to find elsewhere.

One suggestion of mine was to link elements from Gperiodic to web pages.
So I see that it is allready possible, with no violation of copyright, since
no data are got off the site if the links forward to webelements.

The field of what can be written about a particular element is far from being
covered by the webelements site. So it remains very possible to propose to
students to gather informations about chemical elements in a web page they
compose to be linked to their own flavoured version of gperiodic. An exemple
of such a work would be to search historical, geographical and economical data
related to an element.

The other suggestion is to link gperiodic to an interpreted language which
can be used to specify the colorizing scheme to be applied to the element table,
based on raw properties of the elements or on an expression calculated on their
basis. This mode of representation is not used inside the webelement site, they
are using more traditional representation as 2D, 3D plots, with the atomic number
as a coordinate.

		Georges Khaznadar