When first released, CWC comprised of 6 components: the Viewer, Rotator, Transformer, MolGrabber, File Loader, and Doodler (pre-cursor to Sketcher) components. The components of the CWC library are specialized HTML5 classes that expose a high-level API for quick loading and viewing of chemical data, as well as providing utility functions and multi-device event handling.

The ChemDoodle Web Components library can be loaded and displayed wherever a HTML5 engine is available, including WYSIWIG text editors, Apple’s Cocoa development kit, and mobile app webviews.īeyond rendering 2D and 3D chemical graphics, the library also provides access to cheminformatics algorithms, chemical file input/output and manipulation, and a toolset for chemistry web application development through a component system that gives the library its name.

Mobile browsers did support HTML5, which opened the door to web applications built with only HTML, CSS and JavaScript (JS), such as the ChemDoodle Web Components. In 2007 however, the hardware landscape changed dramatically with the introduction of mobile devices that did not support third party plugins such as Flash or Java applets. JME, a molecular editor, was later integrated into Jmol to add chemical structure upload and editing functionality. In 2004 Jmol, a Java applet, was released to replace Chime and provide an open source and operating system independent solution to the growing number of web browsers. Based on the molecular visualization program RasMol, Chime was developed as a plugin for Netscape and later for Internet Explorer and Firefox. The first chemical graphics toolkit for the web, MDL Chime, was introduced in 1996. Companies that implement emerging web technologies can find efficiencies and benefit from competitive advantages. Learning management systems, virtual classrooms and MOOCs are a few examples where chemistry educators need forward compatible tools for digital natives. How we communicate chemical information is increasingly technology driven.

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