Jmol developers: I have had this crazy idea now for about a year. What if one could share an applet with a colleague or student or group of people? It seems to me the combination of a chat interface and a common applet could revolutionize the way we communicate in chemistry over the internet. I could turn the molecule and show you something; you could zero in on something of interest and discuss it with me.
Does this sound interesting? Skype has a great chat/audio/visual interface. Skype 3.0 has new capability to link to plugins. I have no real idea how this works. I'm wondering if it would be possible to somehow engineer a Jmol plug-in or something like that for Skype. Somehow the applet on one end would communicate with the applet on the other end to synchronize the session. It would be like being in front of the same model with the person/persons you are talking with over Skype. Should we explore this? Is Skype the way to go? Does anyone know anything about Skype's plug-in architecture/API Bob -- Robert M. Hanson Professor of Chemistry St. Olaf College Northfield, MN http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr If nature does not answer first what we want, it is better to take what answer we get. -- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list Jmol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
