ps -- neither of the VMD images at
http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=18365#comment-243964 are volume
rendering, by the way. They are just surfaces, one with reflection; one
just a mesh. Right?
On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 7:41 AM, Robert Hanson <hans...@stolaf.edu> wrote:
> RIP, Java applets.
>
> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 5:29 AM, Rzepa, Henry S <h.rz...@imperial.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> I have had a look at Safari preview 32. In the preferences/security tab,
>> the current production safari has settings for
>>
>> 1. Allow WebGL
>> 2. Allow Internet Plugins, and in this latter one can configure to
>> allow Java.
>>
>> In Safari 32, both of these are now gone. With High Sierra developer
>> preview about to be released into beta, may bring confirmation that
>> Safari too has now not merely been deprecated but disallowed.
>>
>> If correct, this means that Jmol.jar can only now run in application
>> mode, and not as a browser plugin.
>>
>> Still, Apple promise that the new Safari will be “faster”, although I
>> suspect it has some way to go to be as fast as compiled Java.
>>
>>
>> I wonder what the missing WebGL means? It never really took off did it!
>>
>
> ?? WebGL is fantastic. Everyone is using it, including JSmol if you use
> that option. See this note relative to WebGPU, though:
> https://webkit.org/blog/7380/next-generation-3d-graphics-on-the-web/
>
> Is curious, though. I can't seem to find any reference to WebGL at the
> preview site. Where do you see that, Henry?
>
>
> Bob
>
>
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Robert M. Hanson
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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