Talk:MediaWiki

Please, post your suggestions concerning the Jmol extension here.

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Use a single <jmol> tag

Suggestion

The idea is to use a single tag (<jmol>) instead of one tag for each component (<jmol>, <jmolButton>, ...).

The current version :

<jmol>
  Applet definition
</jmol>
<jmolButton>
  Button definition
</jmolButton>

The next version :

<jmol>
  <jmolApplet>
    Applet definition
  </jmolApplet>
  <jmolButton>
    Button definition
  </jmolButton>
</jmol>

Adding other components

Suggestion

List of components to add (feel free to add other components) :

• Checkbox
• Radio button

Reading files

Suggestion

Currently, the only way of giving a datafile to the applet is directly through the <contents>.

Other ways need to be available:

• Accessing a file previously uploaded in MediaWiki (how can we do ?)
• Accessing a file through an URL. That may require several other modifications:
  • Possibility to disable this feature in LocalSettings.php
  • Possibility to use the signed applet to access a remote file (configurable in LocalSettings.php)

Comments

• a gzip decompression should be available, especially for CML files
• all files should be accessible via a common category, this will allow to browse to all files at the same time. In other words, this will allow to build up a data repository, which allows downloading all at once.
• If possible a second tool should be able to generate an archive file out of that.
• Is it possible to extend this approach also to JChemPaint and CDK/JOELib to get 2D drawings and calculate physicochemical properties? E.g. toxicity, solubility, etc.?

Contributors

AngelHerraez, NicolasVervelle, JimHu, Joerg Kurt Wegner, Mevans86, Bduke