very cool.
one missing feature I have noticed is a permalink option. so one can have a
specific one (or more) loaded with the page.
e.g. "http://alteredqualia.com/canvasmol/#aspirin would load the aspirin
presentation.
this can be useful If one wish to send a direct link to that particular item.
Periodic table shows colors of elements (I used ones from Jmol).
No exports yet, though in Firefox you can save any canvas element as PNG just by right clicking on it. Maybe for other browsers I could add PNG export via data URI.
Proteins are tough. When you get into thousands of atoms, performance is unsatisfactory, it's pushing browsers to limits.
Firefox is especially problematic because of weird memory behavior - it's growing a lot (on simple array assignments) and then it stutters on garbage collecting.
Chrome is much better, though interestingly for the most complex molecules new Opera is the fastest.
Looks pretty cool, although it makes my N cpu y.yGHz machine crawl. It's sad that 10 years ago(?) people where doing this kind of things with java applets and it actually worked better.
EDIT: I initially tested with konqueror. Now with chrome , it's faster, but I found some strange behaviour when closing windows, as it makes some of the other windows jump to a different position.
10 years ago people were still using Chime. Then Jmol arrived and instead of having to install a proprietary browser plugin, we could wait 30 seconds for the JVM to load. Now we just need some more 3D acceleration for Canvas and we can eliminate that wait as well.
