On 06/09/11 18:09, Magnus Manske wrote: > Support for 3D-rendered molecules on Wikipedia has been on the > wishlist since ... forever. This was never done due to security > concerns, IIRC.
The security issues were just normal XSS, easily fixed with an hour or two of work. > I just found this site : http://alteredqualia.com/canvasmol/#Penicillin > > 3D molecule rendering completely in JavaScript using canvas. Since it > only runs in the user's browser, Wikipedia servers are not at risk; > we'd probably have to check the code for potential XSS problems etc., > and add a wrapper with a fallback to our normal PNG for non-JavaScript > browsers and, yes, old IE. But so what. I think we should go with Jmol, which has many excellent features (not just ball and stick rendering like this canvasmol), a substantial community behind it, and a large content base already hosted on MediaWiki wikis, most notably Proteopedia. http://proteopedia.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
