On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Rzepa, Henry <h.rz...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote: > Vendor lock in means many things.
Yes, it does. > For example, do you worry that you are vendor locked into Acrobat from Adobe? Which I therefore not use. > Or Flash from Adobe. Guilty as charged :) > Or Silverlight from M$? Actually, there is OpenSource for that... Moonlight... but not so sure about the 'standard' being an Open Specification... > In fact, to give Apple some credit, they ARE > trying to promote the > <<open>> (W3C ) standard HTML5 rather than Flash with the iPad. So in > theory, any content developed for the iPad could also be displayed using > (eg?) Chrome, which I believe is also going down the HTML5 route. Not that > HTML5 will help much with Jmol. That is a sane move, but indeed not going to help Jmol... > One could also argue whether eg CML4Word is "vendor locked in" to Microsoft, > since it will never work outside of Windows as currently factored using .Net > (which I write as a Mac user). Yes, and I think I have expressed before on some channel, that I will not be able to use CML4Word... That said, I will be able to use the CML in documents crafted with CML4Word... Thanx for the ping, BTW! Need to write a CDK reader for reading CML4Word files :) Bob, do you envision Jmol will be able to extract the CML from these new Word documents for visualization in Jmol? Egon -- Post-doc @ Uppsala University Proteochemometrics / Bioclipse Group of Prof. Jarl Wikberg Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/ Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list Jmol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
