[Commons-l] Support for Chemical Markup Language

[Brian Salter-Duke]

On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:13:59 -0800, Eugene Zelenko <eugene.zelenko at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> We are discussing on Commons list
> (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2008-November/004338.html)
> possible support for Chemical Markup Language
> (http://cml.sourceforge.net) and Jmol viewer
> (http://jmol.sourceforge.net).
>
> Extension for MediaWiki is already implemented
> (http://wiki.jmol.org/index.php/MediaWiki). However it was done for
> 1.12 and some security concerns exists. Will be great if somebody will
> review extension code and adapt it to current MediaWiki state if
> necessary.
>
> Eugene.

The problem that the Jmol extension worked with 1.12 but not with recent
versions has been fixed. That is now in the latest svn release of Jmol.
This has just been announced on the jmol e-mail list. I was the one who
raised the issue of jmol on wikipedia in response to the post on the
commons list and I also discussed it with Tim Starling a couple of years
ago. The only security concerns are the ones that Tim raised then.  The
extension has been modified since then but I do not know whether there
are still security concerns. I am not competent to judge. Please e-mail
me if you want links to examples of the extension running.

Brian.

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