[Jmol-developers] Some usability problems associated with the changes for efficiency in export to web dialog...

[Jonathan G. <gu...@uw...>]

Bob,
	You've done a lot of work on the web export stuff in the last day.   
Looks pretty good.  However, some of your changes for efficiency have  
made them unusable except for people who work with .html, javascript  
and css source code.

Problem 1:
	Now, the pop-in page opened in basic WYSIWYG web editors will not  
show the div's with tables that have a space for the figure caption.   
The user will not be able to change the figure caption without  
editing the source code.  This is very clean for the page code, but  
not transparent for an unsophisticated user.  I believe that the way  
I had the pages with the tables enclosing images hard coded into  
the .html was more user friendly.

Problem 2:
	Now, in the resizable template the user does not get information  
about where the buttons will appear.  Thus when editing with a  
WYSIWYG editor they will not know where to put their text.

Problem 3: 	
	There also is an unidentified error in the function addJmolDiv.  The  
divs do not show up in FireFox when I tried to use it.  I'm getting  
no javascript errors in the console.  I'm not sure the scripts are  
even running.

For problems 1 an 2 it might help if you downloaded the version of  
11.3.8 that I made and see how the web page templates look in FireFox  
and a simple .html editor like SeaMonkey.  I think you will see the  
difference.

Not a problem, but something that may need to be changed before release:
	The Time_Stamp_Web_Link function in WebExport.java probably needs to  
be updated to something that links to the Jmol site directly, unless  
you think we should maintain information about this export function  
on my web site.

Jonathan
                          Dr. Jonathan H. Gutow
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