[jsword-devel] Looking ahead

[Daniel Glassey]

On 20/06/05, Joe Walker <joseph.walker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  It would be neat to have a module that used BibleGateway (or similar) as a
> back-end.
>  I'm sure there are all sorts of *very* complex copyright issues with doing
> this though!

Alas, it's usually pretty simple. The T&Cs of most of those sites
generally say that you can't syndicate the content. It would be the
same thing as a script that downloads the content and makes a sword
module from it.

You would need specific permission from a site to do that.

Regards,
Daniel

> On 6/18/05, DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Now that we are preparing for a 1.0 release, I think that we can look
> > ahead to the next release.
> > There are a lot of ideas in Jira "bugs" Probably too much for a 1.1
> release.
> > 
> > So what do we work on next? 
> > 
> > I would like to see (not in any particular order):
> > Parallel texts. (Perhaps with a comparison mode where one is shown as
> > the revision of another.)
> > User preferences/state restoration/per module preferences. 
> > Support for the remaining module types.
> > Personal commentary/book marks/robust history.
> > True Daily Devotion support, migrating our "Readings" to it.
> > Full integration of Commentaries and Dictionaries. 
> > 
> > Internally, I think we need to replace Java's HTML rendering with an
> > embedded browser.
> > (More on this in a separate note.)
> > 
> > I think that Sword is going to tackle alternate versification, so I
> > think that we may want to include this. 
> > And along with that, I think it would be good to add support for OSIS
> > bibles.
> > By this I mean, that JSword would work against a raw OSIS document that
> > is not a Sword module.
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