[Jmol-users] the announced death of Java - one more push
Dear Jmol users, You should be aware that Firefox has joined the trend to abandon Java applets and the latest release can no longer run Jmol in pages. Of course, JSmol-html5 is perfectly functional. Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge are another 2 major browser that cannot run Jmol-Java. Firefox 52 (released this week) does not support the NPAPI format of plug-íns and hence cannot run Java applets, Shockwave Player animations (DCR files, Macromedia Director), external PDF viewers inside the browser, etc. Running Flash Player animations/videos has been kept as an exception. Please be aware of this for older Jmol pages. If you are the page author / developer , it is most urgent that you convert your pages to use the JSmol.min.js library and enable HTML5 modality by default. http://wiki.jmol.org/index.php/Jmol_JavaScript_Object#Converting_pages_from_Jmol_to_JSmol If you are a user / visitor , be sure which browser you pick. MS Internet Explorer (versions 9 to 11) still supports Jmol-Java (and is rather slow with JSmol-html5); Safari in the MacOSX is also running Java. Other browsers that retain Java compatibility are Mozilla SeaMonkey (not clear for how long) and Pale Moon (indefinitely by decision of the developers, at least while Oracle continues to deliver the Java Plugin) More specific details and alternatives at http://www.proteopedia.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_and_enabling_Java -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot___ Jmol-users mailing list Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
Re: [Jmol-users] the announced death of Java - one more push
Am 17.03.17 um 10:40 schrieb Angel Herráez: > Dear Jmol users, > > You should be aware that *Firefox * has joined the trend to abandon Java > applets and the latest release can no longer run Jmol in pages. Of > course, JSmol-html5 is perfectly functional. Google *Chrome *and > Microsoft *Edge *are another 2 major browser that cannot run Jmol-Java. > > Firefox 52 (released this week) does not support the NPAPI format of > plug-íns and hence cannot run Java applets, Shockwave Player animations > (DCR files, Macromedia Director), external PDF viewers inside the > browser, etc. Running Flash Player animations/videos has been kept as an > exception. > There is a fork of 'Firefox' called 'Waterfox' (https://www.waterfoxproject.org/) that stays almost identical to 'Firefox' but addresses restrictions like these. So at least until the NPAPI support code is removed completely Jmol-Java should still run with it. And it also enables the 64-bit Java-Plugin on Windows, providing more RAM for Jmol if needed. I havn't tested 'Waterfox 52' yet but the release notes say that the restriction of NPAPI support to FLASH were removed. Regards, Rolf -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot ___ Jmol-users mailing list Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
Re: [Jmol-users] Jmol 14.9.1 - Tiny echo text and hover messages
Rolf, I cannot reproduce this font problem. I see exactly the same font in 14.4, 14.6, 14.9.1, and 14.10.0.beta. I do see that echos are shifted slightly to the left. So perhaps you can send me more specific commands in order to see the problem. On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 12:25 PM, Rolf Huehne wrote: > Hi Bob, > > in Jmol version 14.9.1 echo text seems to be much smaller than in > version 14.6.4 or earlier versions. > > The command 'font echo 15 sansSerif bold' produces now very tiny text > for me compared to version 14.6.4. To get a similarly sized text it is > necessary for me to set the size to approximately '35' instead of '15' > ('font echo 35 sansSerif bold'). > > And when I hover an atom a flood of messages like this appears in the > Java console: > > script manager starting 0 > Thread[QueueThread0,1,file:jmol-14.9.1/jsmol/java/-threadGroup] > script manager starting 1 > Thread[QueueThread1,1,file:jmol-14.9.1/jsmol/java/-threadGroup] > > > Kind regards, > Rolf > > > -- > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > ___ > Jmol-users mailing list > Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users > -- Robert M. Hanson Larson-Anderson 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 -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot___ Jmol-users mailing list Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
Re: [Jmol-users] Jmol 14.9.1 - Tiny echo text and hover messages
Am 17.03.17 um 13:14 schrieb Robert Hanson: > Rolf, I cannot reproduce this font problem. I see exactly the same font > in 14.4, 14.6, 14.9.1, and 14.10.0.beta. I do see that echos are shifted > slightly to the left. So perhaps you can send me more specific commands > in order to see the problem. > Bob, I also couldn't reproduce the font problem in a simple test condition. I am still trying to figure out the conditions when it occurs. While doing this I noticed another problem in version 14.9.1: In the Jena3D-Viewer with Jmol-Javascript (http://jenalib.leibniz-fli.de/cgi-bin/3d_mapping.pl?CODE=1deh&JMOLVERSION=14.9.1) the cartoon reperesentation looks like intended with ribbonborder and alpha-helices shown as helices. But with Jmol-Java (http://jenalib.leibniz-fli.de/cgi-bin/3d_mapping.pl?CODE=1deh&JMOLVERSION=14.9.1&_USE=JAVA) the ribbonborder is missing and the alpha-helices are drawn as "rockets without heads". Regards, Rolf -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot ___ Jmol-users mailing list Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users