My tests of JSmol (in FirstGlance) in the Windows 10 Edge browser indicate that while Edge runs HTML5/Javascript much faster than Internet Explorer, it is still markedly slower than Chrome or Firefox.
Internet Explorer remains unusably slow with JSmol/HTML5. Edge is usable but sluggish, especially for rotation. While Edge rotates cartoon about as fast as Chrome, it rotates a spacefilled rendering much slower than does Chrome. Curiously, the speed/smoothness with which Chrome rotates a cartoon rendering in JSmol/HTML5 has gotten much worse recently. Months ago, Chrome out-performed or equaled all other browsers in rotation. Now, Chrome is substantially slower/jerkier for rotation than Firefox or Safari. This is true in both Windows and OS X. Opera remains very poor at rotating the molecule in JSmol/HTML5. For cartoon in OS X, Opera is slower than Chrome by about two-fold. In Windows, Opera is about equal to Chrome for both cartoon and spacefilled renderings. Here is table summarizing my test results today: https://flic.kr/p/z3Yh6J A summary of browsers vs. Jmol/JSmol is here: http://bioinformatics.org/firstglance/fgij/notes.htm#browsers (This does not yet reflect the recent deterioration in cartoon rotation speed by Chrome in JSmol/HTML5). -Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
