Following my initial foray into converting Jmol applets to JSmol/HTML5 for small teaching demos, I am now turning my attention to a research web application for protein structure motivated (Motivated Proteins) that has been employing the Jmol java applet for the last 10 years or so (http://motif.gla.ac.uk/motif/index.html). I am happy to say that I have managed to do a 95%-acceptable conversion and have mounted a hard-coded mock-up at http://motif.gla.ac.uk/JSmolTest/. Thanks again to Robert Hanson and the rest of the Jmol/JSmol team.
However... ...I have encountered what I regard as a bug in relation to the rendering of text labels. In brief, the default label font for Mac Safari seems imperceptibly different from bold, and is aesthetically unpleasing, and, although this is not particularly important for me, the default hover text is unacceptably ugly. The situation is similar (albeit with some differentiation between plain and bold labels) for Chrome and Firefox on the Mac (a year old iMac with a normal resolution display running Mavericks). On viewing the mockup on a student PC cluster running Windows 7, Chrome and Firefox look marginally better than on the Mac, and only Internet Explorer shows a proper plain label with an acceptable hover style of text. This is different from the java applet version of the web application running on Mac Safari (albeit running a very old version of Jmol) where the text has always been fine, given that it is aliased. Viewing the mock-up on my iPhone there is also no difference between plain and bold, although the default is less bad, perhaps because the phone has a Retina-display screen. I have mounted a gallery of screenshots at http://motif.gla.ac.uk/JSmolTest/text.html. One can also view the text on my demo: click on the button for individual motifs and then on Motif 1 - marked up as 12 plain - and Motif 2 - marked up as 12 bold. I wonder if the font (if any) that is being specified is the problem. Or is there some IE-only code somewhere? David Leader (University of Glasgow) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
