Re: [Jmol-users] Re: applet pull-down menu

[Egon W. <e.w...@sc...>]

On Friday 24 June 2005 17:52, rlight wrote:
> But wouldn't they be able to find it by looking at the web page source--or
> can it be hidden there as well?

Yes. (This question has popped up in the past ...)

Jmol is a client side program, and the view is calculated client side. This 
means that the molecular content *must* be transferred from the server to the 
web browser someway... and thus, a student is able to access the file 
anyway...

It is interesting to know that the DADML plugin sort of works this way... the 
internet databases that are queried with this plugin are generally defined by 
looking at regular webpages and see how they download the information from 
the database...

You could use a clever encryption scheme to make it somewhat more difficult 
though... but I haven't seen Jmol versions that support such a setup...

Egon

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