[Jalview-discuss] links in multiple sequence alignment

Thu Sep 4 14:09:33 BST 2008

Wow, thanks for the quick response. I got the error too, so I'll try  
to checkout the cvs release and start testing :)

Regards,
Bas

On 4 Sep, at 15:01, James Procter wrote:

> Bas Vroling wrote:
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>> The applet version on the jalview site works great. Might it have
>> something to do with the links being relative instead of absolute?
> ah. maybe. yes!
>>>> <html><a href="/mutations/acm1_rat/K136">K136</a></html> ACM1_RAT
>>>> -1      136     136     mutation
> Have you tried opening the console window ?  there should be an 'open
> url: ...' message output when jalview tries to open the URL.
>
> When I tried using a bare href string like the one above, it failed  
> with
> a 'malformedURLException'. So - the applet does not try to append the
> codebase to the URL before it opens it. I've put a TODO and a quick
> check for this in the jalview applet code, and this should propagate  
> to
> the latest CVS release build shortly. However, it will need testing.
>
> Jim.
>
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