Re: [Jmol-developers] zoomLarge

[Miguel <mi...@jm...>]

Bob wrote:

> In February of 2005 the default in Jmol was changed from
> "zoom 100" scaling to fit the the smaller dimension (so
> that a model is automatically always on screen) to scaling
> to fit the larger dimension (so that a model generally goes
> off screen along the smaller dimension, but fills the
> applet in the larger dimension.) Now that we can resize
> the applet and application easily, people are going to
> start doing it, these questions will come up. So I ask them now.
>
> 1) Why was that done? (Miguel?)

I may be mistaken, but I believe that Frieda was one of the people who
requested this.

Angel wrote:

> If the webpage author decides for a non-square applet, it's because
> (s)he has a long molecule. Fitting by default to the shorter
> dimension sounds reasonable in general terms, but is a waste of
> applet space in rectangular applets.


I think that Angel did a good job of summarizing the justification that
was made at the time of the change.

 * If you are using square applets then it doesn't matter.

 * The primary reason for using a rectangular applet is to display a
rectangular molecule.

 * For a rectangular molecule the changed behavior works better.


Miguel