Re: [Jmol-users] support needed -- XHR -- asynchronous vs synchronous

2014-09-04 Thread Robert Hanson
Thank you all -- especially Nick Greeves. A lot has been clarified. Mostly the dire warning doesn't really mean what it appears to say. I'm assured that certainly nothing is going to happen until at least 2016 -- plenty of websites are in the same position we are in. The experimenting with

Re: [Jmol-users] support needed -- XHR -- asynchronous vs synchronous

2014-09-01 Thread Robert Hanson
In reading the proposed AJAX specification more carefully ( https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/xhr/raw-file/default/xhr-1/Overview.html#dom-xmlhttprequest-timeout), we might be OK with the actual proposed specification as it stands. What threw me off was the word must in the warning and the suggestion that

Re: [Jmol-users] support needed -- XHR -- asynchronous vs synchronous

2014-08-31 Thread Jaime Prilusky
Bob, Can you please provide a template letter? Jaim On Aug 31, 2014, at 1:45 PM, Robert Hanson hans...@stolaf.edumailto:hans...@stolaf.edu wrote: Folks, I would appreciate some letter-writing support in relation to http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2014JulSep/0084.html

Re: [Jmol-users] support needed -- XHR -- asynchronous vs synchronous

2014-08-31 Thread Pierluigi Quagliotto
Dear Bob, Would it be opportune and sufficient an intervention by someone like me, who have not so great programming skills? I could stress the importance of JMol/JSMol even for simple projects devoted to education and knowledge spreading in the chemisty and biology fields, not much, probably...

Re: [Jmol-users] support needed -- XHR -- asynchronous vs synchronous

2014-08-31 Thread Robert Hanson
I'd rather leave that up to you. What is needed is simply an answer to these two questions: 1) If browser versions appeared tomorrow (because this group is suggesting that browser designers experiment with the proposed change *now*) that break all JSmol pages currently implemented, what effect

Re: [Jmol-users] support needed -- XHR -- asynchronous vs synchronous

2014-08-31 Thread Robert Hanson
Sure. That's another great suggestion. A third question is pertinent: As a scientist or educator, but not a programmer, how disruptive would it be for you if the next Firefox or Chrome or Safari or whatever browser follows through on the suggestion of this group to experiment with the proposed

Re: [Jmol-users] support needed -- XHR -- asynchronous vs synchronous

2014-08-31 Thread Pierluigi Quagliotto
Ok I will take into account of your suggestion. The answer to the third question is nearly simple. Due to the little experience in programming this would destroy the previous work and probably, if the solution would not be easy to be applied, could also bring the site to death. Do you think that

Re: [Jmol-users] support needed -- XHR -- asynchronous vs synchronous

2014-08-31 Thread Robert Hanson
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Pierluigi Quagliotto pierluigi.quaglio...@unito.it wrote: Do you think that sending an URL from my site could help to explain how simply JMol/JSMol can be used for teachng? Absolutely. If you think and agree that can be of value to be used as an example,