Re: [Jmol-users] Browser enhancement technologies tutorial

2004-03-18 Thread Rzepa, Henry
Thanks Miguel for a truly excellent and clear summary! Plug-in --- To understand a plug-in it is helpful to think back to the helper application. A helper application is not associated with a specific web page. Rather, it is associated with a specific file type, a specific mime-type. The web

Pluglets (was: [Jmol-users] Browser enhancement technologies tutorial)

2004-03-18 Thread E.L. Willighagen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 March 2004 09:24, Rzepa, Henry wrote: Thanks Miguel for a truly excellent and clear summary! I would like to add a possible option: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/blackwood/java-plugins/ It's been around for years now, but it is

Re: [Jmol-users] Browser enhancement technologies tutorial

2004-03-18 Thread Miguel Howard
The web browser will launch MS Word every time it sees a document with the mime-type 'application/msword'. Can I add only to this section that MIME types were never originally intended for use within browsers; they were supposed to be used only for email Very true. In the early days

Re: Pluglets (was: [Jmol-users] Browser enhancement technologies tutorial)

2004-03-18 Thread Miguel Howard
Egon wrote: I would like to add a possible option: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/blackwood/java-plugins/ It's been around for years now, but it is not mainstream (yet)... Pluglets: mozilla plugins written in Java. I have absolutely no idea what the current status is of this project,

Re: [Jmol-users] Browser enhancement technologies tutorial

2004-03-18 Thread Eric Martz
It is a shame to relegate this truly superb tutorial (Thanks, Miguel!!) to the email list. Because of the high volume on jmol-users, I don't think it works well for looking up things (but maybe I don't know how?). I think the jmol.sourceforge.net site needs a place where people can submit and

[Jmol-users] Browser enhancement technologies tutorial

2004-03-17 Thread Miguel Howard
Robert Tim wrote: The user will need a way to tell Safari which file extensions should make it call Jmol. And yes, there needs to be some simple mechanism that installs the plug-in or whatever that trains Safari to call Jmol. (A *very* simple mechanism, please. I know almost no UNIX, and if