Angel, Thanks for looking into this. What you are seeing is basically what I've been seeing. I validated my page as you suggested (had to fix a few things). It gives no errors for xhtml strict. In Firefox the page "loads" and Firebug does not indicate any errors but the page is blank. In Safari 4 the page is blank but the error console indicates two errors. The first is a SyntaxError: Parse Error. The second is the TypeError: Result of expression '_jmol.currentDocument.write' [undefined] is not a function (basically what you saw).
So what it sounds like will be required is maybe a rewrite of jmol.js that uses some DOM based alternative to document.write. Sounds like a challenge. Should be a good learning experience. *********************************************** Jeff Hansen Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry DePauw University 602 S. College Ave. Greencastle, IN 46135 [email protected] *********************************************** On May 6, 2009, at 7:03 PM, Angel Herráez wrote: > It seems that the first hit is caused by document.write not being > supported > by XHTML (documented in several websites) > > My test: > XHTML 1.0 Transitional > > _jmol.currentDocument.write(text); > at line line 834 within > function _jmolDocumentWrite(text) { > > throws an error in Firefox 3 > No error in Opera, but no applet > > Clue: > Does document.write work in XHTML? > No. Because of the way XML is defined, it is not possible to do > tricks like > this, where markup is generated by scripting while the parser is > still parsing > the markup. > You can still achieve the same effects, but you have to do it by > using the > DOM to add and delete elements. > (source: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq#docwrite) > > > And quoting > http://jmol.sourceforge.net/docs/JmolAppletGuide.html#XHTMLSupport > > the standard Jmol.js Javascript library will not work under properly > compliant XML browsers. An alternative, largely similar, but entirely > unsupported library is available ... insert address here ... > (that JmolAppletGuide doc is old --Miguel's times? ... but true > indeed) > > > I've tested the alternative to document.write given at > http://weston.ruter.net/projects/xhtml-document-write/ > http://shepherd-interactive.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/xhtml-document- > write/xhtml-document-write.js > > and, althogh it does not solve the problem, is on its way: > > Opera displays a functional applet, but below it is the yellow box > that says > "you don't have Java" (generated by Jmol.js) > > Firefox displays a Java box with an error, applet class not found, > and the > yellow box below it > > IE8 displays nothing --seems not to like xhtml at all --even with no > Jmol > code in the page, it just displays a blank page and does a download > --of the > page?. > > > More to come... > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! > Your > production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but > thanks to > Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW > KODAK i700 > Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image > processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com > _______________________________________________ > Jmol-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
