Re: [Jmol-users] Hack to deal with Firefox 3 new behaviour regarding Files Input

2008-08-28 Thread Eric Martz
At 8/27/08, Paul Pillot wrote: it allows to load any local file into the Jmol applet.j Thanks very much for sharing, Paul. This sounds like it might be very useful, e.g. in Protein Explorer (as Bob has mentioned) and maybe in a future version of FirstGlance in Jmol. Best regards, -Eric

[Jmol-users] Hack to deal with Firefox 3 new behaviour regarding Files Input

2008-08-27 Thread Paul Pillot
This one might also be regarded as off topic, but as some you might be stuck with the same problem, I thought it might be worth to share. The issue is that starting from firefox 3.0, when using an input file element in a form, you can't access to the full path of the file chosen by the user,

Re: [Jmol-users] Hack to deal with Firefox 3 new behaviour regarding Files Input

2008-08-27 Thread Robert Hanson
yes, thanks, Paul, that's right. It's an interesting compromise. I had to abandon the type=file in Jmol Protein Explorer for FireFox3 because of that. If you can't get the actual path to the file, which I think is actually a good security feature, you can't later reproduce the state, unless you