Well, there is the *not insignificant* problem that only MDL has the source code for Chime.
If it was easily done then MDL would have done it. Instead, they have officially announced that they will not be supporting OSX and have officially put Chime on and end-of-life plan.
They're still keeping the code secret, eh? I thought maybe they would release it. Too bad.
Having Safari call the Jmol *application* directly (as a 'helper application') can be done today. This would automatically launch the Jmol application when a .mol or .pdb file was accessed ... whether the user was online or not.
The Jmol *application* would be launched, so the user would no longer be working in the context of the web browser.
If you think that this would be useful, then we can write up some documents and package things up a little better so that this can be more easily configured.
Q: Would it be valuable to have a simpler mechanism to associate the Jmol application with web browsers as a helper application?
If the Jmol application can be launched automatically whenever a file with MOL or PDB extension was loaded by Safari, that would be a big help. I still think a Safari plug-in that calls the Jmol applet and activates it within Safari would be better, because it's a pain to go back and forth between apps, but as a stop-gap measure, what you suggest is good. Maybe I can interest a computer science student here in writing a plug-in that would call the applet instead of the stand-alone app, if you have other priorities right now.
The user will need a way to tell Safari which file extensions should make it call Jmol. And yes, there needs to be some simple mechanism that installs the plug-in or whatever that trains Safari to call Jmol. (A *very* simple mechanism, please. I know almost no UNIX, and if I wanted to learn it, I wouldn't have bought a Mac!)
Thanks so much. Please let me know when you have something that I can download and install.
-- Bob
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