As I have mentioned before I am trying to get Jmol up and running on
Wikipedia. It seems that my Wikipedia technical admin friend raised this
on IRC and asked people to look at how it all worked on, I guess, the
Jmol wiki. They concluded that WP users expect pages to come up
immediately and that WP users would be put off by the slowness of
loading the Jmol applet. He suggested to me that what was needed was
something like this:-
When the page comes up, it has a large box that says "Clicking here will
bring up a 3-dimensional image of the molecule that you can manipulate.
It uses the Jmol applet. This may take quite a time to download if you
do not already have it in cache. If you want to use the Jmol image,
click here" or rather better words expressing this. The box could
perhaps give a clue about the Jmol image by have a 2-dimensional jpg or
whatever image.
Clicking on that box would bring up Jmol replacing the box on the page.
Is this possible, perhaps using javascript?
If so, can anybody smarter than I at javascript write something, so we
can test it on the Jmol wiki?
I am sure that this or something like it will make the introduction of
Jmol to Wikipedia more acceptable to the Wikipedia administrators.
However, it is not holding back a test of Jmol on Wikipedia. That is
being delayed for other reasons - good reasons.
While this delay is going on, we could perhaps improve the way Jmol
might be used on Wikipedia pages.
I welcome comment and assistance.
Brian.
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