Rzepa, Henry sent [8.55p gmt 2004 March 17 Wednesday] : >>>>Q: Would it be valuable to have a simpler mechanism to associate >>>>the >>>>Jmol application with web browsers as a helper application? >>> >>>If the Jmol application can be launched automatically whenever a >>>file with MOL or PDB extension was loaded by Safari, that would be >>>a big help. >> >>Henry's message seemed to say that making these associations on >>Safari may be difficult. > > >There is no GUI in Safari for setting these things (unlike eg >Mozilla); a program called Misfox (by the author of iCab, another >Mac browser) seems to set the MIME type at the Unix level, but >Safari ignores this. Thus if the server sets a MIME of >chemical/x-mdl-molfile, Safari will simply download the file but >make no attempt to open it (actually, any page which <embed>s eg 10 >files will result in 10 downloads) > I am researching how this behaves, but I admit - it has me stumped right now.
>It gets worse! OS X seems to think that .jar files are "documents" >rather than "applications" (as evidenced by trying to place a .jar >into the dock, it will only go into the document part of the dock). > true...and not true. ;-) if you launch the .jar file it appears in the applications part of the Dock; you can then choose to keep it there. but you can not drag it there de novo. I believe this is because jar files are not recognized as packages. >Thus setting the MIME type in Mozilla and specifying jmol.jar as the >application fails, since the system thinks you are trying to open >one document with another! IE will allow you to define new MIME >types, but trying to associate this with a .jar file again fails >(since a .jar is a document, and its greyed out). > >Yes, it is incredible that Apple could produce such a broken >system. Of course, it may just be my system that is broken; can any >other OS X user reproduce any of the above? > I can confirm this behavior, though I can't tell why Mozilla fails trying to open a pdb file with jmol.jar. regards, :tim -- timothy driscoll molvisions - molecular graphics & visualization <http://www.molvisions.com/> usa:north carolina:wake forest ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
