[Commons-l] Support for Chemical Markup Language

[Brian Salter-Duke]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:03:12 -0800, Eugene Zelenko <eugene.zelenko at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Just re-incarnation of old idea to support 3D image of chemical
> structures... I played a little bit with Kalzium in KDE 4 today and
> discovered molecule viewer which render molecules in Chemical Markup
> Language.
>
> CML (http://cml.sourceforge.net) is open XML-based format so we could
> allow it on Commons and provide files repository for other projects
> (such as Kalzium).
>
> There is also Java-based open source viewer JMol
> (http://jmol.sourceforge.net) including web browser plugin. With JMol
> we could dramatically enreach chemistry/biochemistry related pages in
> Wikipedia/Wikibooks/Wikiversity in same way as we support Ogg media
> files playback now.

See:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Using_Jmol_to_display_molecular_models

I have been trying off and on over a couple of years to get this on
wikipedia. There is a mediawiki extension but it appears to have
security issues. It needs someone to address these issues. Personally I
would like to see Jmol on wikiversity and that might be a suitable
trial before it goes on wikipedia. 

More later in this discussion. I must run.

Brian.

> Eugene.


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