Hi Phil,
I thought the missing name was normal. When I wrote my friend today, I had to
explain that after selecting the file, he had to click the load button!
I'm not sure I know what you mean by the lines issue. What am I looking for in
Safari with this issue?
Otis
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On Sep 17, 2013, at 6:19 PM, Philip Bays wrote:
> Bob:
>
> On a Mac using the latest OS (10.8.5)
>
> Firefox works fine to load and write files; there seems to be no choice where
> they get downloaded, though I can control that in the browser preferences. I
> note that the name of the file selected to load is given in the dialog.
>
> In Safari there are a couple of issues. The name is not given when the file
> is chosen. More importantly, we are back to the lines issue. I have cleared
> the browser cache, and, in fact, disabled it. Perhaps Otis can confirm that
> glitch??
>
>
> On Sep 17, 2013, at 5:54 PM, Robert Hanson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Used to be that it required the signed applet to read and write files
>> locally. Well, well, what do you know? I'm liking HTML5 more and more. The
>> following commands, previously for the signed applet only, now work in
>> JSmol/HTML5.
>>
>> load ? x = load("?")
>>
>> write file ?
>>
>> write xxx.jpg write xxx.png write PNGJ xxx.png
>> write PNGJ 500 500 "xxx.png"
>> write xxx.zip write xxx.jmol
>>
>> write xxx.pdb write xxx.mol write xxx.v2000
>> write xxx.v3000 write xxx.xyz
>>
>>
>> What's especially satisfying for me is that the loading is done
>> asynchronously. I had thought that would be extremely difficult to do -- to
>> pause a running script of however many levels of depth and deep into however
>> many function calls while an asynchronous file load was happening, then
>> restart upon completion at the right place. Well, guess what? It was only
>> moderately difficult! The HTML5 FileReader API is great.
>> [http://www.w3.org/TR/FileAPI/ ] Looks like this has reasonable support
>> across browsers (http://caniuse.com/#feat=filereader), although one cannot
>> go back very far in time.
>>
>> Writing files to disk still requires "reflecting" the data from
>> Info.serverUrl, but I'm optimistic (based on http://caniuse.com/filesystem)
>> that the HTML5 FileWriter API will continue to be introduced and at some
>> point will allow us to get rid of the need of a server for local file
>> writing. Certainly what we have now is close to ideal.
>>
>> Check it out at http://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/jsmol/jsmol.htm
>>
>> http://chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/zip/jmol-13.3.6_2013.09.17.zip
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>> --
>> Robert M. Hanson
>> Larson-Anderson Professor of Chemistry
>> St. Olaf College
>> Northfield, MN
>> http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr
>>
>>
>> If nature does not answer first what we want,
>> it is better to take what answer we get.
>>
>> -- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900
>>
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