[Jmol-users] XHTML and Jmol.js [was documentation update]

[Bob H. <ha...@st...>]

Thanks, Miguel. Teamwork!

To those who were reading some of the exchanges between Toby White and me, 
here's a synopsis that Toby is free to expand upon:

Jmol can work in an "XML/XHTML" environment as well as "HTML".

Most of us are somewhere along the way to understanding some of this. If you 
work from a database environment and you haven't explored XML, you might 
consider checking out Toby's sample page at

http://www.uszla.me.uk/siesta/example/4CDF.xhtml

(not accessible using IE because IE does not accept this special XML mime type 
"application/xhtml+xml")

Double click on a header to see what it's all about. Then look at the source to 
see what XML looks like. Really quite an eye opener if you haven't done this 
sort of thing before.

If you are someone who has used Jmol.js, then you know it's not too difficult to 
put up an applet on a page. We've got some compatibility issues -- particularly 
with certain Mac configurations (but not all), but alas.

The plan is to develop some variants of Jmol.js -- one that works in a strict 
XML environment (maybe just Jmol.js with a few added functions), something like 
Jmol.js that works as a server-app (removing the need for Jmol.js itself being 
sent to the client).

Please do tell us what you are interested in, so we know what the target is.


Bob Hanson




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