> On 25 Aug 2014, at 06:55, Otis Rothenberger <osrot...@chemagic.com> wrote: > > This is still pretty rough, but it illustrates the use of local storage for > an approach to student class notes: > > http://chemagic.com/JSmolVMK2.htm > > Local storage is being used on two control button screens on this page - Draw > and Notes-Misc. > > On the Draw button screen, 10 JSME structures can be saved/retrieved to/from > local storage. > > On the Notes-Misc button screen, 10 Jmol models can be saved/retrieved > to/from local storage. There is also a text area for student notes. Student > notes in this area are auto saved to local storage as they are typed. This > screen also has back-up and erase links for local storage. The back-up link > produces cut/paste JSON text that can be used to transfer the data to another > browser/computer or simply saved as a text file for data back-up > (instructions on Jmol echo window). The erase link erases local storage for > this domain. I can envision notes being archived in files according to topic > and being loaded as needed. > > Like I mentioned before, this storage is analogous to cookies, but the > storage limit is about 5Mb. Ten cholesterol models, ten cholesterol > structures, and pages of blah blah blah notes took up a trivial amount of > total space allowed. > > The data is persistent until erased or replaced. The auto saved notes reload > when the page is opened in the browser of the original save or when a back-up > JSON is loaded into a new browser. > > There is some error checking, but I still have a lot of work to do on this. > The code for working with local storage is amazingly simple to use. I'm > interested in any feedback on how various browsers and platforms respond to > all of this. > > Otis >
I fully support this very exciting possibility. Otis and I discussed the potential of eg annotating with a web browser aka https://www.diigo.com/ some months back, but for many reasons this approach seems so much better than either Diigo or Cookies ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
