Adriano,
Thank you for your kind words. Jmol is a labor of love. Kind words such as
these keep it happening. Sorry for the delayed response. Just getting back
to email after several very intense days getting JSpecView running in pure
JavaScript (http://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/jsmol/testjsv.htm and
http://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/jsmol/testjsv_mol.htm) and adding my own
JavaScript version of a PDF creator to those as well. Whew!
Originally we thought it might be possible to have both worlds, but I'm not
so sure now. Certainly if the operating system CANNOT support Java applets
(iOS, Android) then you can check for that. But for all the other 90+% of
users (believe it or not), we have a problem. While they MIGHT be able to
use Java, will it be there? Do they have it enabled? Or will it be blocked?
Unfortunately, I don't know any way to check that automatically.
There's a real question as to whether there will be a Jmol Java applet in
2014. We'll see.
But while there is a significant performance hit with large systems and
surface creation, depending upon your needs, you may not have too much of a
problem with JSmol/HTML5. I'm recommending
set platformSpeed 1
for faster performance during mouse/touch operations.
Bob
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 6:17 PM, adriano ceccarelli <
[email protected]> wrote:
> I apologize if this isn't the right place to post the following. I am
> forwarding after a first send, thinking the address may be wrong or
> obsolete or else. The original message addresses Bob Hanson as I followed a
> mailto link contained in the test2.htm page. I don't mean
> to specifically bother Bob with these questions and now that I wrote to the
> list any help will be very much appreciated.
> Thanks.
> Kind regards to all
>
> Adriano
>
> Inizio messaggio inoltrato:
>
> *Da: *adriano ceccarelli <[email protected]>
> *Data: *29 ottobre 2013 00.38.12 GMT+01.00
> *A: *[email protected]
> *Oggetto: **test2.htm page*
>
> Dear Bob,
> many thanks for providing the community with nice and exhaustive examples
> such as the test2.htm page that comes in the jmol. zip folder. I was
> fascinated by its flexibility.
> I have been using jmol for a number of years as an aid in teaching basic
> structures for biology and molecular genetics courses. It always went
> flawlessly, if it didn't it was just for my very unexperienced use of html
> code for embedding applets etc etc.
> However, with the advent of java-independent platforms, such as ipad,
> ipod, iphone, android OSs etc what used to be a useful site in now far from
> being so. I started looking for a solution and found the newly developed
> java-independent version. What I find really interesting though is what it
> says in this test2.htm page about the automatic choice of code upon browser
> capabilities. Did I get that right? This would be a gem if I could convert
> to it all the pages in my site.
> But I couldn't work out myself if this is a conceivable idea or rather I
> simply missed a point somewhere along this track.....
> I have seen the jmol2.js script and comments and instructions as to how
> convert already existing pages, but as far as I understand it, once they
> are converted java is not needed/used anymore. Would that impact on basic
> jmol functionality and if so how heavily? Would it be possible to easily
> convert pages to an automatic choice depending on the browser as it is said
> in the test2.htm comments?
>
> Many thanks for your time and help.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Adriano Ceccarelli
>
>
> *Prof. Adriano Ceccarelli*
> *Università degli Studi di Torino*
> *Neuroscience Institute Cavalieri Ottolenghi*
> *Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche e Biologiche*
> *Regione Gonzole 10, 10043 Orbassano (Torino) - Italy*
> *office: +39(0)116705409*
> *fax: +39(0)112365409*
> *mail: [email protected]*
>
>
>
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