At 11:06 02/06/2004 -0500, Bob Hanson wrote:
Is there a way for browsers to read and display cml?
Yes, using applets. Jmol is the most obvious but JME, and Marvin have
been used for some time as well. However the distributor must be able to
mount and serve the applets.
Unfortunately IMO the major browser manufacturers have not put any real
effort into interpreting mime types or namespaces and giving a mechanisms
for displaying. We were almost better off 10 years ago, when helper apps
were common. There is no support for foreign namespaces embedded in HTML,
and no support whatever for generic XML. SVG works in IE5 but not Mozilla
and the plugin mechanism is increasingly broken. Amaya supports SVG and
MathML in hardcoded fashion but only because these are W3C languages.
So what do we do? If there were *any* generic stable mechanism we would
adopt it for CML, but I have no optimism this will appear. So I can't see
any real alternative to applets.
P.
Peter Murray-Rust
Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics
Chemistry Department, Cambridge University
Lensfield Road, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1EW, UK
Tel: +44-1223-763069
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