[Molvis-list] Jmol version 10.00 - RELEASED

[Fernando Gabriel Ranea]

¡Beautiful! ¡Now, I could see the molecules in my Firefox under Linux!
¡Bye Bye Chime plugin! ¡Bye Bye MDL and your "close source"!
¡Thanks Miguel!
Regards,

Miguel wrote:
> Jmol version 10.00 was officially released on Friday 17 December 2004.
> 
> I encourage you to visit http://www.jmol.org, download it, and take a look
> at it.
> 
> Jmol is now a viable, fully functional, high performance, open source
> replacement for the Chime plugin.
> 
> Those of you who have made investments in RasMol/Chime scripts over the
> years should now take a serious look at Jmol ... especially those of who
> who have build web tutorials and applications around the Chime plugin.
> 
> 
> On a personal note ...
> 
> I have been working on this release full-time for two years ... so this is
> clearly a very important milestone for me.
> 
> And I believe that it is important for the molecular visualization
> community. Those of you who have made investments in RasMol/Chime scripts,
> and especially in Chime web courseware, now have a migration path to an
> open source alternative, an applet written in Java, that does not require
> installation on the client, that runs on most major web browsers.
> 
> I undertook this project under the encouragement of Dr. Jose Luis Lopez
> Perez at the University of Salamanca. Those who will use Jmol and benefit
> from it owe Jose Luis a debt of gratitude. !Gracias amigo!
> 
> Miguel

Fernando Gabriel Ranea
fernandoranea at microbiologia.org.ar
http://www.microbiologia.org.ar