Some of my older pages do not use Jmol.js. All my current development
is with Jmol.js, with occasional "extensions" such as
function addCallback(sappcode,functionName){
return sappcode.replace(/\<param/,"<param name='messagecallback'
value='"+functionName+"' />\n<param")
}
which allows the addition of callback parameters.
All the documentation examples at
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr/jmol/docs/examples now use
Jmol.js with this sort of added extension.
Reasons I'm exclusively using Jmol.js now include:
1. The realization that maximizing the number of browsers/platforms
that I wanted my pages to run on required some pretty nasty tricks. I
can let Miguel worry about the implementation details. When word comes
that something somewhere doesn't work, I'd rather install a new
Jmol.js in a few choice directories than retool all my pages.
2. There were/are serious limitations using Jmol.js the "old" way
(allowing the Jmol.js functions to use document.write), but now, since
one can "turn off" direct document writing and instead just get the
code from the function returns and add them wherever/whenever one
wants using .innerHTML() or document.write(), those problems have gone
away.
3. I rarely do anything as simple as throw up an applet on a single
page with just a single molecule in there.
4. I'm moving more toward "write the applet on the fly" applications
rather than the old "write the applet as the page loads". This is very
easy with Jmol.js.
That said, no one should feel obligated to upgrade anything that is
working to newer Jmol.js or .jar files unless doing so makes the
applet (a) load significantly faster or (b) load more reliably. Both
of these HAVE been improvements lately.
Bob Hanson
--
Robert M. Hanson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 507-646-3107
Professor of Chemistry, St. Olaf College
1520 St. Olaf Ave., Northfield, MN 55057
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
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