let me see what I can do with this:
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/dndfiles/
But there will be one problem -- this will be asynchronous, meaning you
will not be able to embed it in a script for now. Not necessarily out of
the question, but we'll see.....
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Angel Herráez <[email protected]>wrote:
> Paul Pillot wrote:
> > I think it is possible through the javascript file api to get access
> > to the content of a local file,
> > and then send this content to Jsmol with the "load data" function.
>
> I doubt that a webpage coming from an external server will be allowed
> to fetch a file from local disk programmatically. That's basic
> security; you do not want pages stealing your files.
> I was hoping that you could load a file chosen by the user from a
> dialog, but it seems not to be the case either. Jmol-Java can do it
> but only with the signed applet, to which the user has to give
> permission before.
>
> In addition, browser policies are becoming more and more restrictive
> (right now I am unable to run my own webpages using unsigned Jmol
> applets from my own hard disk).
>
> > Amjad Farooq wrote:
> > But, I think I would continue using Jmol for now but switch to JSmol
> > when the file upload/save feature becomes available. That is very
> > important to me and I cannot do away with it.
>
> OK. An intermediate option is to change your pages now to the new JSO
> method but setting the Java option. It will be trivial to switch that
> to using HTML5 JSmol in the future.
>
>
>
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