Dear Henry, On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Rzepa, Henry S <[email protected]> wrote: >> I find it very disturbing that educators are even considering creating >> a learning environment where students are restricted in their >> learning! That is just another step back to the middle ages... Henry, >> I very much appreciate that people use the platform on which they can >> perform their work most efficient; do not disallow your students the >> same choice! > > I a not sure I understand what you are saying Egon. If there is eg no Jmol on > e.g. an iPad or Kindle, is that extending choice?
It most certainly is not... I would love to see Jmol work on the iPad or Kindle... > It could be viewed as a lack of choice, ie if you want the features of Jmol > on a mobile device, your choice is currently restricted just to Android. 'just' :) > I mentioned in my post standards, ie epub2, epub3. There are widely > available readers for these on all platforms (well, not yet epub3, but it > will come). Again, I am not sure where the lack of choice there is? I am wondering if these will allow the interactivity we want as done in Proteopedia. Will those formats be an electronic dead tree, or proper HTML with embedding of interactive things (applet/WebGL/...) which can be interacted with? > WebGL is expected shortly on both types, again no lack of choice. My argument was not against WebGL, but against iPad, and in reply to your 8 points in comparing iPad to Android... The interaction and accessibility is crucial... we want students to not just look at a protein, but indeed also to allow them do things the material did not immediately envision, like the downloading of that structure into other tools... Egon -- Dr E.L. Willighagen Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT Maastricht University (http://www.bigcat.unimaas.nl/) Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/ LinkedIn: http://se.linkedin.com/in/egonw Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
