[jsword-devel] Using native browsers in BibleDesktop

[DM Smith]

In looking at the SWT Browser, it looks like it will be ugly, but 
perhaps simple to get it to work with custom protocols (e.g. bible://, 
dict://, ...) that are to be intercepted by BibleDesktop and gotten from 
modules.

It looks like you implement a LocationListener.changing(LocationEvent 
le) to intercept the request url, examine it for the protocol and then 
veto it. After that the url in the LocationEvent is used to get the text 
from the module and supply it for the browser.

Hopefully, this can be done in the changing method.

DM Smith wrote:

> I was surprised that Java's displaying of HTML has degraded under 1.5.
> There are a lot of workarounds in the HTML that we construct for 
> BibleDesktop
> (which I thought that we could eliminate under 1.5) and it would be 
> really nice
> to use a real browser.
>
> Joe has done surveys of alternates in the past and I recently took a 
> look at
> where it is all going. While my survey is not anywhere as thorough as 
> Joe's
> it seems to me that development of a Java base browser is being dropped
> in favor of embedding a user's default native browser.
>
> Joe has started playing with JDIC (Java Desktop Integration Components)
> Browser component. I have taken a look at his effort and I see that there
> are two basic challenges. The first is that we need to be able to 
> provide a
> protocol handler to do linking to and within Sword modules. This looks
> like it is very doable. Joe has almost finished this.
>
> The other challenge is that the embedded JDIC browser is a heavy 
> weight and
> does not play well with Swing. I have not looked, but I bet that all 
> other
> implementations of embedding the browser will have the same problem.
>
> So the question that this poses is "With what shall we re-write 
> BibleDesktop?"
>
> And "Do we want to go this route?"
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