>>>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.
There is no GUI in Safari for setting these things (unlike eg Mozilla); a program called Misfox (by the author of iCab, another Mac browser) seems to set the MIME type at the Unix level, but Safari ignores this. Thus if the server sets a MIME of chemical/x-mdl-molfile, Safari will simply download the file but make no attempt to open it (actually, any page which <embed>s eg 10 files will result in 10 downloads) It gets worse! OS X seems to think that .jar files are "documents" rather than "applications" (as evidenced by trying to place a .jar into the dock, it will only go into the document part of the dock). Thus setting the MIME type in Mozilla and specifying jmol.jar as the application fails, since the system thinks you are trying to open one document with another! IE will allow you to define new MIME types, but trying to associate this with a .jar file again fails (since a .jar is a document, and its greyed out). Yes, it is incredible that Apple could produce such a broken system. Of course, it may just be my system that is broken; can any other OS X user reproduce any of the above? -- Henry Rzepa. Imperial College, Chemistry Dept. +44 0778 626 8220 +44 020 7594 5804 (Fax) ------------------------------------------------------- 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
