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


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