User:Eric Martz/How JSmol works: Difference between revisions

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This is a ~~not-very-~~technical overview of how [[Jmol|JSmol]] and [[Jmol]] work in websites, such as Protopedia, [[FirstGlance in Jmol]], and many others.

This is intended to be a minimally technical overview of how [[Jmol|JSmol]] and [[Jmol]] work in websites, such as Protopedia, [[FirstGlance in Jmol]], and many others.

==Providing JSmol==

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A website has, at the very least, some hypertext markup language files (filenames ending .htm or .html). Usually there are also some image files (filenames ending .png, .jpg, .gif, etc.) for images that are displayed in the web pages. And usually there are also some [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript JavaScript] files (filenames ending .js) and some cascading style sheet files (filenames ending .css). JavaScript (not to be confused with [[Java]]) is a programming language that is interpreted by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser web browser].

In order to invoke JSmol, the files on the website server must also include the javascript code for JSmol (filenames ending .js). If the Jmol Java applet is to be invoked, the Java archive files for Jmol (filenames ending .jar) must also be included.

In order to invoke JSmol, the files on the website server must also include the javascript code for JSmol (filenames ending .js). If the Jmol Java applet is to be invoked, the Java archive files for Jmol (filenames ending .jar) must also be included. All these are included in the download package from [http://jmol.sourceforge.net/download/].

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-This is a not-very-technical overview of how [[Jmol|JSmol]] and [[Jmol]] work in websites, such as Protopedia, [[FirstGlance in Jmol]], and many others.
+This is intended to be a  minimally technical overview of how [[Jmol|JSmol]] and [[Jmol]] work in websites, such as Protopedia, [[FirstGlance in Jmol]], and many others.
 ==Providing JSmol==
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 A website has, at the very least, some hypertext markup language files (filenames ending .htm or .html). Usually there are also some image files (filenames ending .png, .jpg, .gif, etc.) for images that are displayed in the web pages. And usually there are also some [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript JavaScript] files (filenames ending .js) and some cascading style sheet files (filenames ending .css). JavaScript (not to be confused with [[Java]]) is a programming language that is interpreted by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser web browser].
-In order to invoke JSmol, the files on the website server must also include the javascript code for JSmol (filenames ending .js). If the Jmol Java applet is to be invoked, the Java archive files for Jmol (filenames ending .jar) must also be included.
+In order to invoke JSmol, the files on the website server must also include the javascript code for JSmol (filenames ending .js). If the Jmol Java applet is to be invoked, the Java archive files for Jmol (filenames ending .jar) must also be included. All these are included in the download package from [http://jmol.sourceforge.net/download/].