Re: =[xhr]

I would like to emphasise the detrimental effect that the proposed experimentation would have on a large number of sites across Chemistry research and education that would mysteriously stop working when users (automatically) upgraded their browsers and JSmol ceased to function.

JSmol is used so widely because it gets away from the historic need for a specific browser version and a specific plugin  or Java installation and works across all browsers and platforms.

Examples of critical sites that would be broken/have to be rebuilt include

UK National Chemical Database Service http://cds.rsc.org notably CSD, ICSD, ChemSpider, CrystalWorks

I should also declare a vested interest as my own Open Educational Resource ChemTube3D depends on JSmol, which supports the teaching of Chemistry in Liverpool and across the world. There were more than 590,000 visitors (up 48% on the previous year) from 209 countries in the last year of operation.

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