Interactive Periodic Table

The interface feels a bit on the skittish side – it's one of those pages where you're afraid to move because it's going to change something, and where dragging the mouse around threatens to give you a seizure. And I'm not sure the color scheme is going to win any design awards. But, still, excellent. There's a great deal of information in there. It beats consulting a big paper handbook.

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…

To really enjoy it, click the Properties tab, then choose Boiling point or Discovered, and _then_ operate the slider. Provides a good light show in modern browsers. Clicking on elements in the Isotopes tab is good, too. Also the Wide checkbox at top left. Hell, just click Demo at the bottom and take in the show. No Flash, either.

Michael from ptable.com recently used our product to create a demo for this app. At first glance I was a little overwhelmed but upon seeing everything that it can do (Check out the demo) my jaw basically dropped the entire time. This guy has put a TON of work into this and I applaud him, I'm sure students love this thing. What do you folks think?