Bob,
I wouldn't be so dismissive of the iPad/iPhone revolution. Clearly the
latter looks to be dominating the smart phone market, despite it's higher price
tag. It wasn't that long ago that experts were dismissive of Apple overall (or
dismissive of mice and the GUI, for that matter). jmol risks being left behind
if it is not adapted to a platform with a growing user base. I do appreciate
that Apple's omitting Java support has made adapting jmol very challenging, but
I would love someone to rise to this challenge - for my own and for jmol's sake.
For those of you starting to use iPads in lecture, I do have some colleagues
at UMass who have an acceptable kludge, wherein they mirror their laptops onto
the iPad and then switch to that when they want to use jmol structures (they
can do everything else on the iPad and it is significantly cheaper than the
ThinkPads we used to use - not to mention a lot less buggy). If anyone is
interested, I can point them to my colleagues. But of course this is not a
general solution.
I don't yet have an iPad personally, but it's on my list of things to buy
next and I have a number of colleagues who are absolutely fanatical. Tomorrow
we go to the Dean to pitch an idea that will involve the purchase of 200 iPads,
for laboratory and evening exam use. The latter would benefit greatly from jmol
adaptation.
Anyone game to take this on? Bringing jmol out of Java and into HTML5/OpenGL?
Craig Martin
UMass Amherst Chemistry
PS - my kid's elementary school is 100% Apple. The middle and high school are
mixed about 50/50.
PPS - conflict of interest statement here - I own Apple stock ;-)
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> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:42:10 -0500
> From: Robert Hanson <hans...@stolaf.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Jmol-users] "Jmol" for iPads?
> To: jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
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> Jmol is now portable to the iPad. In principle, at least. The Android port
> shows that. But really, developing for the iPad is to develop something
> very different in behavior to what you have now, and I think there are
> different solutions, then, for that. You can't just take something like
> Jmol and expect it to 'run' on the iPad. What you want is something with
> the look and feel of an iPad. lots of gestures, no keyboard to speak of,
> just the essentials.
>
> With all the other cheaper options out there, I'm sorry to see high
> schools are jumping for another round of Apple-ware. Funny how all the
> schools i've been in lately are filled with Windows machines even though a
> few years ago it was all Mac. I wonder why.....
>
> Bob
Craig Martin
cmar...@chem.umass.edu
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