On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 4:08 AM, Gusts Kaksis <gusts.kak...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Tables are for tabular data - like spreadsheets.
>
Wow, amazing how times change! Tables were definitely specifically for
page layout when they were initially developed.
Layout is a concern of the design, thus a cascading style sheet related
> thing. HTML5 even introduced new tags, like article (for content blocks),
> aside (for secondary information - sidebar, for example), nav (for
> navigation), section (for single infological block), etc. I tend to use
> divs for now, as they are intended as page division blocks, which you can
> classify (with class name) or identify (with id), but in my latest
> projects, I've already implemented the new HTML5 tags.
>
> My future plan now consists of two things:
> 1. I'll continue my work now on JME and JSpecView implementation in
> jQuery. I'll create a separate plugin for each of them in the same manner -
> initialize and wrap.
> 2. I have to take a deeper look into ChemDoodleWeb and GLmol - I quite do
> not understand them yet - are they just the same as JML/Jmol just in pure
> JavaScript or what?
>
>
I don't know what JML is. But yes, they are JavaScript alternatives to
Jmol.
ChemDoodle is a proprietary licensable software package from iChemLabs. It
is part of a much larger vision. It has two flavors -- an HTML5-only
version and an HTML5/WebGL version. No high-level scripting -- just
JavaScript itself -- but JmolCD.js works on that to add at least a modicum
of high-level scripting. (Which I realize I need to document as soon as I
can.) Free only for academic use.
GLmol is, I believe, GPL. It requires HTML5/WebGL. It is licensed under
MIT and LGPL3.
> One more thing. Once the number of required JavaScript files grows - for
> example, developer want's to implement Jmol and GLmol, and use GLmol when
> possible instead of Jmol, plus JME or ChemDoodleWeb in the same manner -
> it's about 10 JavaScript files to call in the head part of html. I'd
> suggest something like http://www.andresvidal.com/jsl or
> http://requirejs.org/ to handle script loading, so that GLmol is loaded
> only when it can be used, also it would basically require a single script
> tag with the main entry point to web application, that would handle
> dependency loading when necessary.
>
> Thanks. I've certainly done something like that on other projects, and
that is certainly a good idea. There's nothing particularly new about
dynamic script loading, of course. I don't think you would ever use both
GLmol and ChemDoodle options, so there's no issue there. Nothing is very
large here, so it's not really a big deal -- on the order of a 250K
download -- but I'm with you in trying always to minimize wasted transfer,
even if there is a cache. Maybe once things settle down a bit we can look
into that.
> Anyway, thank you for your kind words. I'm really glad to be helpful. :)
>
>
Good to have you on board.
Bob
--
Robert M. Hanson
Larson-Anderson Professor of Chemistry
Chair, Chemistry Department
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr
If nature does not answer first what we want,
it is better to take what answer we get.
-- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900
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