On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Robert Hanson <[email protected]> wrote: > Can someone explain to me how the combination of HTML5 and WebGL is a > replacement for Java?
It is not so much the Java language as it is the Applet design... the applet concept requires a plugin to be installed (with the Java VM), while a JavaScript VM comes by default with any browser... (yes, if only they had made BeanShell the scripting language... or Groovy, or ...) > Is the idea there that HTML5 somehow (via on-the-fly compiling? via > pre-compiled equivalents of Java?) can reach the sort of speeds that people > need for molecular graphics? Or is this just a dream? I'm just not finding > anything out there that suggests it's any more than JavaScript with a 3D > canvas. It's true that it would be nice to have built-in 3D graphics, and I > can see how in some limited fashion this could be useful, but there's a lot > besides rendering that is done in the process of molecular visualization. > Construct an MO? Apply symmetry? I fully agree that the JavaScript versions have not catched up with Jmol, and with your speed, they will find it hard to keep up too :) But, the point is that the applet environment is getting dated... not much new developments there... no race between Google, Nokia, Apple, Mozilla Foundation to produce the fastest VM... JChemPaint faces the same 'problem'... will it get overtaken by JavaScript solutions... > Mind you, I like my iPhone. It's a great phone. I hate the one I do not have: it does not do Java... Egon -- Post-doc @ Uppsala University Proteochemometrics / Bioclipse Group of Prof. Jarl Wikberg Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/ Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
