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This is mine. I spent quarantine greatly upgrading it from its previous design from roughly 2007 (old.ptable.com) which itself was a great upgrade to how it looked in 1997 (https://web.archive.org/web/19990208231647/http://www.dayah....). It uses no frameworks or libraries and has a payload size of ~64K if you use an ad/tracker blocker, and that includes all the property data and WebGL orbitals rendered from the Schrodinger equation on the Electrons tab. Fully keyboard accessible with arrows/tabs. One controversial feature is fit-to-window that uses some elaborate CSS math (no JS) to keep the size fixed as you switch from topbar to sidebar or turn Wide on/off.

A lot of functionality is hidden, which is why I have the 100-second demo video: https://ptable.com/demo. Would love to hear impressions or feedback as staring at it for months has blinded me to first impressions/annoyances.

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Good work! This has been my go to for a long time. Like early oughts.

Only thing I can think to ask for is a table of the isotopes!

Thanks for the long-term support. Do you consider the click-to-fan out isotopes now to be too clumsy for your use?

Sorry to barge in into the thread, but regarding the isotopes with current pop-out style: As a person who lately started collaborating with NMR people I think it will be nice if one can filter them by half-life/abundance (e.g. to filter out anything that has natural abundance of 0 or below x), and then look at magnetic/quadrupole moment to see if resonance people can measure it).

But anyways, thanks for all the work you've done! I've been using it daily for the past 10-11 years, it is a great resource :D

Wow, over a decade! I'm sure you have much feedback to offer. You've convinced me to change the way search works with fanned isotopes. Currently, searching for "infinity" under half-life will show stable elements or ">0" under abundance will show non-zero values by dimming those isotopes. Instead, I'll have it filter them out entirely rather than adjusting opacity.

I forget you added that sometimes, but I did love finding it! What I am missing is the experience of looking at that curve/smear of a graph that is the table of the isotopes.

Keep up the good work, probably sums it up best :)

I didn’t mean isotopes. I want to challenge you with this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_nuclides but I misremember the name sometimes.

Android -> Does cool stuff in chrome, does nothing in edge.

I believe the non-beta Android Edge still uses EdgeHTML which doesn't support optional chaining and I abandoned support for as it's now 0.08% of my users. Try out the beta?

haha, nah easier to just use it on chrome, I only have both so I can stay logged-in to different accounts without hassles. Although I think edge performed marginally better on my low spec phone when I tested it at one point.

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