>>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.
Henry's message seemed to say that making these associations on Safari may be difficult. On every other browser that I know of it can be done. > 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. OK. Regarding 'stop-gap' ... I want to be clear that any type of Jmol 'plug-in' could not happen before 2005. > 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. I appreciate the offer. But do not underestimate the magnitude of this task ... writing a plug-in is a *major* piece of development ... > 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!) Given Henry's comment ... we need to see what the Mac folks have to say. Miguel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
