Yes Nick, that's the primary interest for me doing this, and it works on the iPad. The RCSB PDB is about to release PDBMobile for the iPhone (later iPad, Android etc) and I need a way to reliably provide interactive molecular rendering in a future version. I don't believe that WebGL (when it eventually comes to mobile webkit in Android and iOS) will cut it for larger sized protein structure rendering. Scaling this up to multiple concurrent Jmol sessions will require creative serverside programming. The only question at this time is whether websockets will make it into iOS 4.2. Cheers Greg
------------------------------------------ Greg Quinn, Ph.D. Senior Scientist & Mobile Development Lead RCSB Protein Data Bank San Diego Supercomputer Center (858) 534 8399 ------------------------------------------- ________________________________________ From: Greeves, Nick <ngree...@li...> - 2010-10-04 18:30 Attachments: Message as HTML Does that mean Jmol has a chance on an iPad? That would be great. All the best Nick Sent from my iPad ________________________________________ From: Greg Quinn Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2010 7:24 PM To: jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Proof of concept of Jmol running in a web browser through websockets I've been playing around this weekend to see what whether HTML5 websockets could be mated with molecular rendering running serverside. This has been fairly easy to prototype with Jmol because of the nature of Jmol graphics (2D). Turned out to be fairly straightforward to implement using the JWebSockets server running in TomCat. Instead of passing a window/container's graphic context to the viewer instance, I'm passing the context of an offscreen image buffer, which is then converted to base64 and shunted down through the websockets connection. This would be much more efficient without the base64 conversion but unfortunately the websockets implementations don't yet support binary frames although spec does. Lots of further optimization to be done; my interest is in its use for mobile browsers/platforms that don't support Java. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wu5gOxQxcs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization is moving to the mainstream and overtaking non-virtualized environment for deploying applications. Does it make network security easier or more difficult to achieve? Read this whitepaper to separate the two and get a better understanding. http://p.sf.net/sfu/hp-phase2-d2d _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
