----- Original Message ----- From: Philip Bays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, March 19, 2004 10:10 am Subject: Re: [Jmol-users] Re: MIME types
> This is not exactly what I meant. I have this vague memory > (senility > is setting in!) that when we first began using Chime many years > ago, > the campus IT staff had to do something on their end before the > local > machines would properly display structures, even though chime was > installed on the local machine. Am I remembering correctly, and > is > there something we need to do in the present case? Not senility, just a bad dream! Indeed, servers delivering chemical formats to be interpreted by Chime had to be set up on the servers to send a MIME type with it (similar to pdf, wrl, doc, etc.) Without it, Netscape browsers would not correctly interpret the contents as chem files (unless they were local, which led to aggravating situations when things would display correctly _locally_ but break when posted on a server.) As it happened, MS Internet Explorer broke all the MIME rules and simply made decisions based on the file extension, ignoring any associated MIME info from the server. So Chime contents would work on IE in the absence of getting the techies involved. Not a bug, but a feature? --Phillip Barak ------------------------------------------------------- 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
