Re: [Jmol-users] Web browser plug-in?

2004-03-17 Thread timothy driscoll
Robert B. Grossman sent [2.05p gmt 2004 March 17 Wednesday] : > >If the Jmol application can be launched automatically whenever a >file with MOL or PDB extension was loaded by Safari, that would be a >big help. I still think a Safari plug-in that calls the Jmol applet >and activates it within Saf

Re: [Jmol-users] Web browser plug-in?

2004-03-17 Thread timothy driscoll
Miguel Howard sent [11.15p gmt 2004 March 17 Wednesday] : >>>Henry's message seemed to say that making these associations on >>>Safari >>>may be difficult. >> >>There is no GUI in Safari for setting these things (unlike eg >>Mozilla) > >:-O > >and every other web browser on the planet! > how is i

Re: [Jmol-users] Web browser plug-in?

2004-03-17 Thread timothy driscoll
Rzepa, Henry sent [8.55p gmt 2004 March 17 Wednesday] : Q: Would it be valuable to have a simpler mechanism to associate the Jmol application with web browsers as a helper application? >>> >>>If the Jmol application can be launched automatically whenever a >>>file with MOL or PDB exten

Re: [Jmol-users] Web browser plug-in?

2004-03-17 Thread Miguel Howard
>>Henry's message seemed to say that making these associations on Safari >> may be difficult. > > There is no GUI in Safari for setting these things > (unlike eg Mozilla) :-O and every other web browser on the planet! > It gets worse! [snip] > Yes, it is incredible that Apple could produce su

Re: [Jmol-users] Web browser plug-in?

2004-03-17 Thread Rzepa, Henry
>>>Q: Would it be valuable to have a simpler mechanism to associate the >>> Jmol application with web browsers as a helper application? >> >> If the Jmol application can be launched automatically whenever a file >> with MOL or PDB extension was loaded by Safari, that would be a big >> help. > >Henr

Re: [Jmol-users] Web browser plug-in?

2004-03-17 Thread Miguel Howard
>>Q: Would it be valuable to have a simpler mechanism to associate the >> Jmol application with web browsers as a helper application? > > If the Jmol application can be launched automatically whenever a file > with MOL or PDB extension was loaded by Safari, that would be a big > help. Henry's mess

Re: [Jmol-users] Web browser plug-in?

2004-03-17 Thread Miguel Howard
>>Q: Would it be valuable to have a simpler mechanism to associate the >> Jmol application with web browsers as a helper application? > > This of course was the MIME handling mechanism, and the reason for > chemical/x-pdb etc MIME types. As far as I can tell, OS X does > not have a clear mechani

Re: [Jmol-users] Web browser plug-in?

2004-03-17 Thread Robert B. Grossman
At 7:47 PM +0100 3/17/04, Miguel Howard wrote: Well, there is the *not insignificant* problem that only MDL has the source code for Chime. If it was easily done then MDL would have done it. Instead, they have officially announced that they will not be supporting OSX and have officially put Chime on

Re: [Jmol-users] Web browser plug-in?

2004-03-17 Thread Rzepa, Henry
> >Q: Would it be valuable to have a simpler mechanism to associate the Jmol >application with web browsers as a helper application? This of course was the MIME handling mechanism, and the reason for chemical/x-pdb etc MIME types. As far as I can tell, OS X does not have a clear mechanism for s

Re: [Jmol-users] Web browser plug-in?

2004-03-17 Thread Miguel Howard
Robert wrote: > Back to the issue of loading Jmol in a browser when Jmol is not > delivered by the server that also delivers the content. I found this > page on plug-in development for Safari. > > http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn2020.html This is a useful document for me. Thanks for se

Re: [Jmol-users] Web browser plug-in?

2004-03-17 Thread Robert B. Grossman
Back to the issue of loading Jmol in a browser when Jmol is not delivered by the server that also delivers the content. I found this page on plug-in development for Safari. http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn2020.html According to this document, plug-ins for Netscape for MacOS 7-9 can

Re: [Jmol-users] Web browser plug-in?

2004-03-12 Thread Jan Reichert
Miguel Howard schrieb: Jan wrote: configure Jmol like RasMol make a script file, starting Jmol with the temporary file from the browser http://www.imb-jena.de/ImgLibPDB/docs/RasMolInfo.html If I understand you correctly, this will launch the Jmol application as a "helper application" outs

Re: [Jmol-users] Web browser plug-in?

2004-03-12 Thread Miguel Howard
Jan wrote: > configure Jmol like RasMol make a script file, starting Jmol with the > temporary file from the browser > http://www.imb-jena.de/ImgLibPDB/docs/RasMolInfo.html If I understand you correctly, this will launch the Jmol application as a "helper application" outside the browser. Unfortu

Re: [Jmol-users] Web browser plug-in?

2004-03-12 Thread Jan Reichert
Miguel Howard schrieb: Robert wrote: ... Robert, OK, now I understand. You want something that is installed on the local machine and does not require a web server. Specifically, the American Chemical Society now provides MOL files and other online content in the Web versions of their publ

Re: [Jmol-users] Web browser plug-in?

2004-03-12 Thread Miguel Howard
Robert wrote: >> > Specifically, the American Chemical Society now provides MOL files >> and >>> other online content in the Web versions of their publications, but >>> it does not deliver applets to render the content. (Maybe it >>> should, but it doesn't.) >> >>(Perhaps we should suggest tha

Re: [Jmol-users] Web browser plug-in?

2004-03-12 Thread Robert B. Grossman
> Specifically, the American Chemical Society now provides MOL files and other online content in the Web versions of their publications, but it does not deliver applets to render the content. (Maybe it should, but it doesn't.) (Perhaps we should suggest that they consider using Jmol :-) Act

Re: [Jmol-users] Web browser plug-in?

2004-03-12 Thread Miguel Howard
Robert wrote: >>> I've recently upgraded to MacOS 10.3, and I use Safari nearly >>> exclusively. I was wondering whether there are plans or has been >>> progress in creating a Jmol plug-in for the Safari Web browser? >> >>Panther 10.3/Safari works well with the existing JmolApplet. > > Hi Miguel

Re: [Jmol-users] Web browser plug-in?

2004-03-12 Thread Robert B. Grossman
Robert, I've recently upgraded to MacOS 10.3, and I use Safari nearly exclusively. I was wondering whether there are plans or has been progress in creating a Jmol plug-in for the Safari Web browser? Panther 10.3/Safari works well with the existing JmolApplet. Hi Miguel, I'm not talking about

Re: [Jmol-users] Web browser plug-in?

2004-03-12 Thread Miguel Howard
Robert, > I've recently upgraded to MacOS 10.3, and I use Safari nearly > exclusively. I was wondering whether there are plans or has been > progress in creating a Jmol plug-in for the Safari Web browser? Panther 10.3/Safari works well with the existing JmolApplet. You should be able to see som