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

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