Re: [sword-devel] HTML5 front-end

2012-03-28 Thread Mike Hart
An HTML5 (or similar) reader (app free) with persistent retention of texts (offline, at least once the text is obtained the first time) would be a very very valuable item to have in the CrossWire.org stable. Sort of an evolved Go-Bible. :-)___

Re: [sword-devel] HTML5 front-end

2012-03-28 Thread Greg Hellings
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Mike Hart just_mik...@yahoo.com wrote: An HTML5 (or similar) reader (app free) with persistent retention of texts (offline, at least once the text is obtained the first time) would be a very very valuable item to have in the CrossWire.org stable. Sort of an

Re: [sword-devel] HTML5 front-end

2012-03-27 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
John, I'm sure you've seen SWORDWeb at: http://crosswire.org/study It has quite a few features (word click for morph, lemma, searching, textual evidence). Has fairly nice parallel support. Troy On 03/26/2012 04:13 PM, John Austen wrote: Yes, internet would be required to view, search,

Re: [sword-devel] HTML5 front-end

2012-03-27 Thread Matěj Cepl
On 27.3.2012 12:34, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: I'm sure you've seen SWORDWeb at: http://crosswire.org/study Of course, I know about it and use it quite often ... sometimes it is faster to just switch to another tab than starting whole Xiphos. However, I was asking about *mobile* web

Re: [sword-devel] HTML5 front-end

2012-03-26 Thread John Austen
I just returned from a conference where there was a request from the Institute for Bible Translation (IBT) to create a web interface to access their new SWORD repository. The idea is to provide something with similar capabilities to their SWORD program: Holy Bible, but instead using their

Re: [sword-devel] HTML5 front-end

2012-03-26 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
Is Internet, instead if local storage, becomes required? From phone, sorry for top-post. Regards, Dmitrij. On 26 Mar 2012, at 13:24, John Austen gpl.programs.i...@gmail.com wrote: I just returned from a conference where there was a request from the Institute for Bible Translation (IBT) to

Re: [sword-devel] HTML5 front-end

2012-03-26 Thread John Austen
Yes, internet would be required to view, search, and interact with Bible texts in this case. But things like bookmarks and personal settings could be stored locally in cookies. If someone wants a browser based offline SWORD program, the new xulsword (aka Holy Bible) Firefox add-on would be an

Re: [sword-devel] HTML5 front-end

2012-03-26 Thread Matěj Cepl
On 26.3.2012 16:13, John Austen wrote: If someone wants a browser based offline SWORD program, the new xulsword (aka Holy Bible) Firefox add-on would be an option (it is currently available for Windows, but a Linux version should be coming in the future). FireBible is another option which

[sword-devel] HTML5 front-end

2012-02-29 Thread Matej Cepl
With the advent of Boot2Gecko (and ChromeOS and iPad) it is getting increasingly interesting to have HTML5 version of Sword client. I know it is very difficult (it would probably require porting of a lot of C/C++ code to Javascript, also I have no idea how to store in IndexedDB or some other

Re: [sword-devel] HTML5 front-end

2012-02-29 Thread Greg Hellings
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Matej Cepl mc...@redhat.com wrote: With the advent of Boot2Gecko (and ChromeOS and iPad) it is getting increasingly interesting to have HTML5 version of Sword client. I know it is very difficult (it would probably require porting of a lot of C/C++ code to

Re: [sword-devel] HTML5 front-end

2012-02-29 Thread Jonathan Morgan
Hi Matej, On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Matej Cepl mc...@redhat.com wrote: With the advent of Boot2Gecko (and ChromeOS and iPad) it is getting increasingly interesting to have HTML5 version of Sword client. I know it is very difficult (it would probably require porting of a lot of C/C++

Re: [sword-devel] HTML5 front-end

2012-02-29 Thread מיכאל בר-דוד
I built a JS bible software, but it's using XML storage for the texts. If there's a simple way to convert sword modules into simple xml files it would be very easy to create the frontend מיכאל בר-דוד Michael Bar-David mich...@mail.org.il

Re: [sword-devel] HTML5 front-end

2012-02-29 Thread Greg Hellings
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:47 AM, מיכאל בר-דוד mich...@mail.org.il wrote: I built a JS bible software, but it's using XML storage for the texts. If there's a simple way to convert sword modules into simple xml files it would be very easy to create the frontend We have an XML exporter for

Re: [sword-devel] HTML5 front-end

2012-02-29 Thread Matěj Cepl
On 29.2.2012 14:47, מיכאל בר-דוד wrote: I built a JS bible software, but it's using XML storage for the texts. If there's a simple way to convert sword modules into simple xml files it would be very easy to create the frontend Where does its source code grow? Matěj --

Re: [sword-devel] HTML5 front-end

2012-02-29 Thread מיכאל בר-דוד
offline... I'll find it and upload it to my server. In the meantime, you can take a look at the PHP version, basically it's very similar: http://webible.kramatgan.org/ (Hebrew interface) מיכאל בר-דוד Michael Bar-David mich...@mail.org.il

Re: [sword-devel] HTML5 front-end

2012-02-29 Thread Matej Cepl
On 29.2.2012 14:46, Jonathan Morgan wrote: It's not a SWORD project, but you might be interested in the (very) recent blog post about such a piece of software at http://donteatthefruit.com/2012/02/powerful-secure-bible-software-for-closed-countries-and-you/. The code is on github and the license

Re: [sword-devel] HTML5 front-end

2012-02-29 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Please do not export our data to XML. We do not own most of our data. CrossWire has been granted rights by many content providers to use their content. Often this permission is not transferable. Exporting from one content to another is almost always lossy. We try to mark the source of

Re: [sword-devel] HTML5 front-end

2012-02-29 Thread David Haslam
The About page for http://donteatthefruit.com/ begins Hi, I’m John Charles Dickey Dyer. My day job is the director of web development at Dallas Theological Seminary. I also had the priviledge of studying theology there and earned my Master of Theology (Th.M.) degree in 2008. I also make some

Re: [sword-devel] HTML5 front-end

2012-02-29 Thread David Haslam
Almost forgot... I also mentioned John Dyer's book in my own blog. http://engineeringandtheology.blogspot.com/ David -- View this message in context: http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/HTML5-front-end-tp4431510p4432278.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.