Re: [Jmol-users] Relative against absolute addresses

[Rolf H. <rh...@fl...>]

nve...@cl... wrote:
>De: Brian Salter-Duke <b_...@oc...>
>  
>>>>1. When trying to incorporate jmol in wiki pages. One user doing this
>>>>reports that ../extensions/jmol is needed for it to work in preview and
>>>>./extensions/jmol when the article is saved (I could have these the
>>>>wrong way round). An absolute address would fix this. I can not even get
>>>>it to work like that user reports. I'm still struggling.
>>>>        
>
>Clodoaldo also struggled with Jmol to put it on the Fah Wiki.
>Here's is what he told me about the solution he put in place:
>"I made the paths relative to the server root and comented out the alert in jmolInitialize() and now it works both in the saved page and the preview page."
>
>So he is using absolute path ("/....") and he made a simple modification in Jmol.js.
>
>I will work on a cleaner solution next month.
>
>  

I don't know why Miguel is trying to force people to use only one of the
three possible ways to provide the path (directory-relative,
DocumentRoot-relative, absolute). There are advantages and disadvantages
with all three ways. It depends on each individual case which solution
is the most adequate one.

I think that he views this too much from the perspective of an applet
developer. The directory-relative variant he wants to force is often not
very suitable for interface developers, because it restricts the
location of the pages to the same directory level. The devolepment area
is for example often in a totally different part of the WWW server
directory tree as the pages provided for users. Therefore the movement
from the development area to the productive area would always require
editing the page (or changing the CGI script configuration) with
directory-relative path specifications.

I like the idea of an additional switch that would avoid having to
modify 'Jmol.js' each time it is updated, if Miguel still thinks he
should direct the user to the directory-relative path specification.

Regards,
Rolf