Text => Images => 3D Models
Jan 1994: chemical MIME types
chemical/x-pdb
RasMol Helper:
July 1995: IETF Stockholm, Standards track sought.
June 1994: Chemical Structure Markup Language
Data: defining attributes of molecules
Script: resident on user's computer (sendras)
Script reads markup data and sends to (single) RasMol Process:Unix (Tcl/Wish) specific
No communication RasMol => WWW Client
Safe Tcl?
December 1994: Common Client Interface (CCI)
EyeChem <=> CCI <=> Mosaic
Action possible on 3D model objects in EyeChem
Still non-standard (Unix only)
March 1995: VRML 1.0 => Moving Worlds
3D model object selection can initiate action
External display
Nov 1996: In-line display using WebFX and non-standard HTML:<embed src="http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/equinox/dmso4.wrl" width=150 height=150>
Cross-platform (Win95)
