On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Tim Starling <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
Jmol is fine with me. My point was that, since we can't seem to get the "traditional" stuff deployed, pure JavaScript might be a workable shortcut. Magnus _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
