As a follow up to the recent discussion about Firefox 30, and the use of the
PHP file, there are a few issues I'd like to get sorted in my head; my current
understanding / questions:
- If JSmol is being hosted on a remote server (i.e. a website), and
the developer has an option to allow end users (viewers of the website) to
upload a binary file, the PHP handles the file upload (this is no different to
any kind of file upload that any developer has done since the earliest days of
web development).
- If JSmol is hosted on a website, and has a hardcoded path to a
binary file on the same file system, when does the PHP file get invoked (I note
that the PHP file has some code to convert binary to base64), or can jQuery /
JSmol read the file directly in some instances? Or is this browser dependent?
If it is browser dependent, I assume it's being called in jQuery's .get()
function, so is only invoked if necessary?
- If I create a local HTML file with a JSmol applet to view binary
files in it, and view it in a browser as C:/path/to/file/jsmol.html, it's
browser dependent as to whether I can view the binary file (Firefox can, chrome
can't)? As I'm not serving the file via apache, the PHP file certainly isn't
being invoked, so the browser / jQuery *can* read the binary?
Further to this, I've discovered that QtWebkit has different behaviour in
Windows and Unix; it seems that on Windows, a widget with QtWebkit can display
binary files, but the same code doesn't display binary files on Unix. Can
anyone else confirm whether this behaviour is expected?
Cheers,
Chris
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Dr Chris Wood
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Didcot
OX11 0QX
chris.w...@stfc.ac.uk
www.ccpem.ac.uk
Tel: +44(0)1235 567864
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Skype: chris_c_wood<callto://chris_c_wood/>
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