I wrote on another thread > > However... > ...I have another question about JSmol since testing it on all sorts > of platforms. On the iPad (and other tablet platforms) there is no > such thing as hover or mouse-over. OK, one has to live with that for > mouse-over an atom in the structure, but it breaks the JSmol menu. Any > plans to address that?
[Not really a good idea to change the focus of a thread this way] Sorry, I've changed the subject to start a new thread. >What has hover to do with the mouse menu? But the menu on smaller platforms >can be a problem because it is not in the style of the device, and it tends >to run over. >Clicking on the JSmol logo gets you the menu, but perhaps in a bad >location. OK, my experience with the JSmol mouse menu is as follows: On the desktop: 1. Uou click on the JSmol text and get a drop-down menu with triangles indicating submenus. 2. As your mouse goes over an item, the background changes and the submenu appears. 3. Finally when you get a menu with no submenus you click on it to select the choice indicated. On the iPad (running iOS 8): 1. You tap on the the JSmol text and get the same drop-down menu as before. 2. There is no step 2. If you tap on a menu item, all that happens is the menu shifts to the side of the screen, but any amount of tapping fails to produce the submenus. I do not know how html/css/js menus work. However from my own experiments with hover and mouseover on different mobile platforms I suspect that the appearance of the submenu is coded as a css hover response. If it were a mouseover event it would respond to a tap. Only on Windows Mobile is there any response to hover, and that is transient while you hold your finger down. If I am correct about hover, then I do not see how the JSmenu can work on mobile devices as coded at present (and it doesn't seem to in my hands). Hence my question. David PS. I previously mounted a page where you can test the response of mobile devices to hover, mouseover and mouseclick at http://www.davidleader.net/mobiledemo.html . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
