Peter, That would be a fun thing to add to Shuffl! I like it.
What I'd need would be a Javascript library that takes the raw chemical data in some form (I'm not familiar with how such things are usually represented - CML?) and creates a rendering into a DOM object or canvas. Given that, I could try wrapping the library with a Shuffl card plugin, and adding logic to read data from a web "file system". BTW, I think one of the keys to Javascript robustness (for me, at least) is the jQuery library. It provides a programming model that encourages the right kind of modularity, and helps to guide a programmer away from some of Javascripts more treacherous bear-traps. #g -- Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > > > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Tim Vandermeersch > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > Not a widely used one. There are some around though. jsMolEdit is not > finnished AFAIK and there is Chemene JSDraw (commercial). source: > http://blueobelisk.shapado.com/questions/jme-molecular-editor-alternatives > > jsMolEdit is a proof-of-concept I think, it's not really javascript > either. It uses java and GWT to generate the javascript. > > > I think the time has come for a native client-side Javascript molecular > viewer. [I wrote JUMBO-JS for CML about 10 years ago but the > browser technology was so mutable and fickle that it was doomed to > perish]. I was very encouraged last week by a presentation from Graham > Klyne (Oxford) who has created a JS tool Shuffl to create a client-side > hypercard-like system for viewing data. Shuffl is/was funded by JISC. It > convinced me that Javascript was sufficiently robust to revisit. > > I felt that Shuffl is crying out for a molecular viewer and that it > should not be too dificult to create at least a basic 2D one. I've > copied Graham as he will be coming to visit us on Friday. > > P. > > > > > Tim > > > Craig > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss > > > > > -- > Peter Murray-Rust > Reader in Molecular Informatics > Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry > University of Cambridge > CB2 1EW, UK > +44-1223-763069 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
