[Jmol-users] Proteopedia: green links problem in Firefox

[Eric M. <em...@mi...>]

Regarding green links failing in Proteopedia.Org:

Four people have kindly reported that green links do not change the 
Jmol scene, in Firefox. We greatly appreciate these reports.

We have made one change that might solve the problem. Please try again now.

Unfortunately, we cannot reproduce the original problem from within 
the Weizmann institute, for reasons unclear to us. Thus we cannot 
tell if the one change has fixed the problem. So we have a few questions:

1. Please tell us: When you go to the main page of Proteopedia, 
before you click a green link, does a molecule display in Jmol? If 
yes, do you see the SCRIPTED view intended, which is a ribbon, 
colored by group (N->C rainbow), with a magenta spacefilled ligand?

2. Do the green links work for anyone who is using Firefox on 
Windows? The green link should change the molecular scene/view in 
Jmol. If yes, please open Jmol's menu and tell us your java version. 
Also please tell us the version of your Firefox (Help, About Firefox).

3. If the green links are not working for you on Windows (Angel, 
Andrew and Karl) please tell us the version of java you have 
installed (Jmol's menu, About Jmol, 3rd, 4th and 5th lines).

3A. Also please click on "Random Page" (in the navigation box at the 
upper left) and try the green links under the molecule for Ligands 
and Sites. Does every green link fail?

4. Have any Mac OS X users tried the green links in 
http://Proteopedia.Org? We think the problem is an interaction 
between Firefox and java versions 1.6 and later. Since Apple java is 
always older (currently 1.4.2_16) than the latest Sun java, green 
links may work in Firefox on OS X.

Until we can resolve this problem, we ask that Windows users please 
use Internet Explorer if you want to access Proteopedia. This is an 
easy workaround. (We're not sure what to suggest for linux users -- Egon?).

Thanks very much! -Eric, Eran, and Jaim