Interesting! Well, it's a start. Now to find the equivalent for MSIE. Rolf Huehne wrote:
> Hi, > >I think I found a solution to save images from the applet without the >need of a server. >The solution is supposed to work at least for most current non-'Internet >Explorer' browsers. > >The idea is quite simple: > >1) the javascript Jmol interface requests an image from Jmol >2) Jmol returns the image data to the interface >3) the image is inserted as value into the HTML code of the page for a >(predefined?) object >4) the browser displays the image in the page >5) the user saves the image using the "Save image..." dialog > >I have set up a little demonstration page that illustrates this technique: >http://www.fli-leibniz.de/ImgLibPDB/pages/embedded_image_demo.html > >I had this idea already a while ago but didn't know how to display image >data without a file. The tip from the following URL, >"http://www.lsc.ufsc.br/~luizd/base64-to-mhtml/workaround.html";, >provided the solution. > >The problem with 'Internet Explorer' is, that the demo page uses a >base64 encoded image and (of course) IE seems to be the only current >browser that doesn't decode base64 images. > >But I think for saving images from Jmol it should not be necessary to >use base64 encoding. Since the data is integrated as value directly with >javascript into the object, I would expect that special characters will >not be a problem. > >I havn't found out yet how to specify the image data without base64 >encoding, but it might just be: > >"data='data:image/gif;...'" >instead of >"data='data:image/gif;base64,...'" > >(the '...' represent the image data) > >I couldn't test if this really works because I had no idea yet how to >get the image data into a javascript variable without Jmol providing it. > >This method should at least work with other browsers, if Jmol would do a >base64 encoding of the image. > >It would be best, if the resolution of the provided image could be set >independant from the size of the applet. > >Regards, >Rolf > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your >opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash >http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV >_______________________________________________ >Jmol-users mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
