On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Philip Bays <[email protected]> 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.
>
In what way? Where would it be "given"? What result does that have?
> More importantly, we are back to the lines issue.
>
amazing.
> 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
>
>
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> Robert M. Hanson
> Larson-Anderson Professor of Chemistry
> St. Olaf College
> Northfield, MN
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>
>
> 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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