Ten years are a long time when it comes to (recent) technologies. The first post on this blog was on the topic of how to present chemistry with three intact dimensions. I had in mind molecular models, molecular isosurfaces and molecular vibrations (arguably a further dimension). Here I reflect on how ten years of progress in technology has required changes and the challenge of how any necessary changes might be kept “under the hood” of this blog.
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Ten years on: Jmol and WordPress.
Wednesday, May 16th, 2018Tags:Ajax, Computer programming, computing, Cross-platform software, HTML, Java, Java applet, Java technology, JavaScript, JavaScript libraries, jmol, JQuery, NPAPI, Scientific Journal, Software engineering, Technology/Internet, web browser behaviour, web browsers, Web-page security
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Curating a nine year old journal FAIR data table.
Monday, May 29th, 2017As the Internet and its Web-components age, so early pages start to decay as technology moves on. A few posts ago, I talked about the maintenance of a relatively simple page first hosted some 21 years ago. In my notes on the curation, I wrote the phrase “Less successful was the attempt to include buttons which could be used to annotate the structures with highlights. These buttons no longer work and will have to be entirely replaced in the future at some stage.” Well, that time has now come, for a rather more crucial page associated with a journal article published more recently in 2009.[cite]10.1039/b810301a[/cite]
Tags:Applet, compression algorithm, computing, Cross-platform software, HTML, HTML element, Internet Journal, Java, Java applet, Java platform, jmol, Markup languages, Open formats, publishers site, publishers systems, technology moves, Technology/Internet, the Internet Journal, Web browser, web technologies, Web-components age, XML, XSLT
Posted in Chemical IT | 8 Comments »