Jmol prerelease 10.00.37 is now available from http://www.jmol.org/files
This prerelease only contains modifications and enhancements to the Jmol.js JavaScript library. Please test Jmol.js and be on the lookout for problems. Detail ------ The changes in this prerelease relate exclusively to the html tags that are generated under jmolApplet() to insert applets into the page. <object> tags are now generated instead of <applet> tags for browsers that are HTML 4 compliant IE 5.5 and greater on Windows Safari 2.0 and greater on Mac OS X Opera 8 on Windows Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape on Windows and Linux/Unix. I believe that the code that is generated is now fully HTML-4-compliant. If someone else wanted to double-check this then that would be great. Other browsers continue to use the <applet> tag. Regarding treatment of systems that do not have Java installed ... Windows systems that do not have Java installed now behave *much* better. For IE 5.5 and greater, Jmol.js generates html code that will cause the browser to automatically prompt the user if the Sun Java Plug-in is not installed. After confirmation from the user the system will automatically install the Sun Java 1.5.0_5 Runtime Environment from the Sun web servers. The mechanism is completely automatic and worked well in my testing. The current Mozilla browsers on Windows do a good job of notifying the user when Java is not installed. They automatically prompt the user to install the Sun Java Runtime Environment. On all browsers, users who do not have Java installed/enabled (or who choose not to automatically install Java) now receive a much better error message to notify them of the problem. The space where the applet should have appeared now contains text and a link to www.java.com Overall, this is a relatively significant change in the way that the html code is generated. I did quite a bit of testing ... but I may well have missed something. Therefore, be on the lookout for potential problems ... and do not hesitate to raise a flag if you encounter suspicious behavior. Miguel ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
