Henry, Speaking from a programmer's perspective, I find your comparison premature. It's the equivalent of saying that the HTML 5 canvas tag will replace Flash - true, it's possible this could happen one day. However, given that (i) HTML 5 is not yet standardised or fully supported across browsers, (ii) Jmol will undoubtedly continue development and improve its feature set (iii) Use of HTML 5 will not preclude use of Java or Flash anytime soon (or perhaps ever), the question seems moot.
Additionally, we have no way of knowing whether the JVM would run faster or slower than dynamic HTML 5 elements in any particular browser, so there's no guarantee that performance would improve. David 2009/8/25 Rzepa, Henry <[email protected]>: > With "HTML5" and its multimedia components being finalised (the W3C > specification is being edited by one person from Apple, and another from > Google!), > > > http://homepage.mac.com/swain/Macinchem/Reviews/Chemdoodle/chemdoodle_web_components.htm > > makes for an interesting comparison with Jmol. It is touted as a mechanism > for rendering molecules and their properties which does not rely on Java, > and other virtual engines. > > The current functionality is not a patch on Jmol, and I suspect extending > chemdoodle to achieve this functionality is going to be non trivial. I wonder > nevertheless whether Jmol, or ChemDoodle is the future? Has anyone who has > studied ChemDoodle in greater depth prepared to comment on its pros and cons > to this forum? > -- > Henry S Rzepa > +44 (020) 7594 5774 (Voice); Blog: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/ > Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK. > > (Voracious anti-spam filter in operation for received email. > If expected reply not received, please phone/fax). > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Jmol-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
