The version of Jmol usually shipped with SAGE is likely to break soon in most webkit browsers...

[Jonathan Gutow]

Thought I would pass this warning on to people. The Jmol community
has found that the old version of Jmol normally packaged with SAGE is
unlikely to work in most webkit browsers (especially on MacOS) very
soon. In the Jmol community we have already seen this and have a
fix. It requires newer versions of the Jmol.js file primarily, but
that file assumes newer versions of the applet. I have set up my
expanded ability Jmol .spkg (see http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9238
and http://code.google.com/p/sagenb/issues/detail?id=1) so that it
upgrades easily to newer versions of Jmol. The latest version of
the .spkg does include the fixes for webkit browsers. Unless there
are plans to switch to a different 3-D viewer soon, I think including
this package in SAGE needs to become somewhat more urgent to avoid a
broken 3-D viewer.

Jonathan
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[Volker Braun]

I'm all in favor of updating jmol, but I don't see the plan here. Do you want to break out jmol from the sagenb spkg into a separate spkg? Or should we (i.e. the sagenb maintainer) rather make a new sagenb release with the updated jmol. 

Volker

[kcrisman]

I think that the idea is that one would need a new sagenb spkg
release.

- kcrisman

[Jonathan]

I built the Jmol .spkg simply so people could test it. What I suggest
is that this .spkg be folded into the next sagenb release. I suppose
if I am to help after that I will have to figure out how you are
maintaining the shared code. I work regularly with SVN and CVS, but
have no experience with mercurial. The mercurial model seems good,
but the tools appear to be much less developed than SVN.

Jonathan