Indeed java in the browser was killed a long time ago. But the good news is that plenty of alternatives exist, written in native (to the browser) javascript. Wikipedia has a nice compilation of the different viewers, under the "Web-based systems" section:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_molecular_graphics_systems I would particularly recommend the Mol* project: https://molstar.org/ Jose On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 at 10:37, Robbie Joosten <robbie_joos...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi Nick, > > A bit of a hack I suppose, but you could use a (single use) VM with some > old windows version that still works. > E-mailing the developers directly is the way to go to figure out whether > you can expect an update. > > We had a similar problem with our own webserver (the Crystallographic > Construct Designer ccd.rhpc.nki.nl) which was completely a java applet. > The only real solution was a full rewrite. But that requires funding which > we luckily got from the West-Life project. > Keeping websites online is is not easy with changing technology and > getting funding is hard because it is not new science. > > Cheers, > Robbie > > > > On 19 Mar 2019 17:43, Nicholas Keep <n.k...@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk> wrote: > > This is slightly off topic but I suspect people from PDBe etc read this > bulletin board. > > Quite a number of very useful structural biology web sites (Olderado, > Vivaldi, EMDB to name but a few) require java based viewers and hence no > longer have full (or in the case of vivaldi any) functionality on up to > date browsers. > > On a new computer it may prove hard or even impossible to find a browser > that will work > > Are there plans to update these websites and is there any suggeted time > scale? > > Any work rounds? > > Best wishes > > Nick > > -- > Prof Nicholas H. Keep > Executive Dean of School of Science > Professor of Biomolecular Science > Crystallography, Institute for Structural and Molecular Biology, > Department of Biological Sciences > Birkbeck, University of London, > Malet Street, > Bloomsbury > LONDON > WC1E 7HX > > email n.k...@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk > Telephone 020-7631-6852 (Room G54a Office) > 020-7631-6800 (Department Office) > Fax 020-7631-6803 > If you want to access me in person you have to come to the crystallography > entrance > and ring me or the department office from the internal phone by the door > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1
