[jsword-devel] Looking ahead

[DM Smith]

One of the design changes that we are planning is to embed a browser to 
render html.
This would allow the application to use any website that the user can 
enter (if we make it possible).
Hmmm. Wonder what the issues of doing that would be?

Daniel Glassey wrote:

>On 20/06/05, Joe Walker <joseph.walker at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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!
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>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.
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>You would need specific permission from a site to do that.
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>Regards,
>Daniel
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>>On 6/18/05, DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>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
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>>>So what do we work on next? 
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>>>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. 
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>>>Internally, I think we need to replace Java's HTML rendering with an
>>>embedded browser.
>>>(More on this in a separate note.)
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>>>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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