Agreed, Otis. I realized after reading your message that a version of JSmol
that worked that way would be highly desirable, provided the process of
loading files as needed is acceptable from a user experience perspective.

Cheers, Mike


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Michael Evans
Organic Chemistry Graduate Student, Moore Group
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Otis Rothenberger
<osrot...@chemagic.com>wrote:

> Michael,
>
> I understand your concern, but I'm think about page application
> development.
>
> If I understand Bob correctly, then functionality would be loaded from
> server as needed. These loads would be controlled by the page application
> developer so that it's hidden from users. If that's what Bob is suggesting,
> I think it would be great.
>
> Otis
>
> --
> Otis Rothenberger
> o...@chemagic.com
> http://chemagic.com
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 30, 2013, at 1:33 PM, Michael Evans wrote:
>
> Bob,
> I feel like cherry picking functionality to include would present
> difficulties to users; e.g. "I thought JSmol could do x, but it can't!"
>
> This is a wild idea, but could the entire command-running apparatus be
> decoupled from display and mouse actions, with significant savings in code
> size? I'm imagining something like a kiosk mode, without the machinery of
> scripting behind it.
>
> I understand this may not be possible; just wanted to throw it out there.
>
> On Wednesday, January 30, 2013, Robert Hanson wrote:
>
>> I'm wondering if we should try to produce a really trimmed-down "lite"
>> version of Jmol -- a very very minimal core set of functionality that could
>> have better load performance on mobile devices for very basic tasks.
>>
>> Maybe just
>>
>> wireframe
>> spacefill
>> balls&sticks
>> no text
>> no math (just simple "Rasmol-like" script commands)
>> just XYZ/MOL file reading
>>
>> (basically a ChemDoodle-HTML5-only-like level of capability)
>>
>> What would be a reasonable goal for code size?
>>
>> Suggestions?
>>
>> (I think I could make it to automatically load additional functionality
>> as needed.)
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>> --
>> Robert M. Hanson
>> Larson-Anderson Professor of Chemistry
>> Chair, Chemistry Department
>> St. Olaf College
>> Northfield, MN
>> http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr
>>
>>
>> If nature does not answer first what we want,
>> it is better to take what answer we get.
>>
>> -- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900
>>
>>
>
> --
>
> ---
> Michael Evans
> Organic Chemistry Graduate Student, Moore Group
> University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
>
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