[Commons-l] Support for Chemical Markup Language

[Brian Salter-Duke]

On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:50:08 +0100, Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com> wrote:
> Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
>> 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.
>
>
> See https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16491
> That users can embed javascript is not acceptable to run it on Wikipedia.
> Other parameters, like urlContents or signed wouldn't be used but at
> least they can be disabled.

I am afraid this is all beyond my expertise. Are you saying that there
is no way Jmol can ever be used on WMF projects? 

Brian.

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