Sorry for reopen this thread...
After reading sword module files with server-side Javascript
(https://github.com/zefanja/node-swordjs) I was able to read the ztext
modules in the browser. I've used the FileAPI to read a *.bzz file (or
better only a part of it) and decompress the ArrayBuffer/Uint8Array with
zlib.js (https://github.com/imaya/zlib.js) to get uncompressed data.
I don't like the idea of rewriting everything from scratch, but
currently there is no way to use the c++ code for a javascript
implentation. I've tried to port the SWFilter part with Emscripten but
without success. I think it is possible to port the simple filters that
only have a processText() function, but the OSIS filters have to many
dependencies (like SWModule, SWMgr, VerseKey, ...).
Another problem is (like mentioned before) how to store the module files
in a browser. There is the FileSystem API, but it is Chrome-only.
IndexedDB is implemented in Firefox, Chrome and IE10, but you can store
file blobs only in Firefox and not in the other browsers. There is a
FileSystem API wrapper for Firefox
(https://github.com/ebidel/idb.filesystem.js) but with some limitations.
What do you think about a HTML5/JS implemantion in general? How can we
use as much as possible code of the current library so that we don't
have to rewrite everything from scratch?
I will uploaded my code as soon as I cleaned it up.
--Stephan
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