Dear Bob, Thanks for the comprehensive summary on the state of Jmol applet and JSmol.
First of all, a huge thanks for the tremendous effort you have put in such a short time and the extraordinary product you have achieved to make. We all owe you much. A few notes of my own to share with users: * JSmol has problems to run from local disk --in contrast to Jmol applet. You can find trouble during initialization if you are not using it from a web server. A local web server is fine. Users must be aware of this -- you cannot run around with your laptop and show colleagues your stuff when you don't have internet connection or a precise setup in your laptop. I have been unable to narrow down what is that fails in loading of the JS libraries from local disk. It seems also to depend on the particular browser. * With Internet Explorer, JSmol-HTML5 is only functional with very recent versions (9 is OK, 8 likely too) and the speed of rendering, rotation, etc. may still be poor (that seems to depend on MS implementation of javascript in their browser). * The world of iPad and other tablets and phones is now open to JSmol, and that is great news. There are yet concerns about the responsiveness of the models in JSmol. This will need experimentation to find out. The good news is that even though JSmol is still slower, it is likely that it will improve as browsers are updated. HTML5 is the right track to follow. * I have already set translation of some of my pages, which use ellaborate contents and Jmol scripts, and which now run Java-less. I still need to integrate them properly in my website structure, but for now you are welcome to check them out at http://biomodel.uah.es/en/noJava/model3/ http://biomodel.uah.es/en/noJava/dna/ (feedback is welcome on performance in different platforms) * And more on capturing a snapshot from JSmol as an image goes in a separate message. http://biomodel.uah.es/en/noJava/export-image/index.htm Long life Jmol! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_123012 _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
