At 11/27/05, Miguel wrote:
Web applications developers who are *not* using Jmol.js are encouraged to
contact me on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list to discuss
these planned changes and to discuss their motivation for not using
Jmol.js
Dear Miguel,
I am not using jmol.js in FirstGlance in Jmol. I started out trying to use
it, but immediately ran into situations where it appeared that I would have
needed to modify it. Jmol.js is sufficiently complicated that modifications
seemed much harder to do than not using it.
Also I wanted to understand what I was doing (without having to understand
everything in jmol.js).
Also I was hoping I could avoid browser-specific or platform-specific code,
and I noted that there seemed to be such in jmol.js.
The only browser-specific code I ended up with in FirstGlance is a message
that appears only in Safari to warn about a bug in Apple's java.
I would be interested in using jmol.js in a future version of FirstGlance
in Jmol, especially if documentation existed (as comments within jmol.js,
or a separate document) that explained what it idoes and why. I felt
reluctant to include a "black box" that I did not understand and therefore
cannot support for an application that I hope will have wide use.
Things like this in jmol.js made me nervous:
windowsClassId: "clsid:8AD9C840-044E-11D1-B3E9-00805F499D93",
windowsCabUrl:
"http://java.sun.com/update/1.5.0/jinstall-1_5_0_05-windows-i586.cab";,
I am not criticizing jmol.js which is clearly a HUGE benefit for most
(all?) authors of Jmol websites. I apologize for being a troglodyte
(defined at dictionary.com as "A curmudgeon attached to an obsolescent
computing environment").
-Eric
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