[jsword-devel] [sword-devel] Web Front-end for JSword (iPhone targeted)

[Greg Hellings]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 8:42 AM, DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Apr 19, 2008, at 5:22 AM, Greg Hellings wrote:
>
>  > I've thrown together a quick AJAX-based front-end for JSword.  I'm
>  > aiming to make it look and work nice for iPhone users.  We'll see if
>  > it works out.  Right now it works fine in Safari on the desktop, and
>  > also in the iPhone simulator.  In the simulator the display of
>  > non-ASCII characters seems to fail (specifically the WLC and AraSVD
>  > modules with Hebrew and Arabic).  I don't know if that's the same on
>  > the devices, as I don't have access to one at this time, however, they
>  > work fine in desktop Safari.
>
>  Super. Great start!
>
>  I'm doing the same. :) But I'm not trying to actually create a product.
>
>  My goal is to create *a* working tutorial for Safari, IE and Firefox.
>  Right now, it does not work on Safari. I haven't tried it on IE.

I get essentially the same error in IE7 as I got in Safari "
'undefined' is not an object."  Then again, my own page has IE7 issues
it seems, the CSS for :hover doesn't appear to be supported in IE7 or
Mozilla, while it works fine in Safari.  Likely this is because the
items are not actually links, and the :hover style is, I believe,
targeted at anchor tags specifically.  However, that styling is aimed
at just making it more obvious to desktop users - iPhone has no
concept of mouseover/hover.

>
>  For more details see my post on jsword-devel:
>
>  http://www.crosswire.org/pipermail/jsword-devel/2008-April/002453.html

I read through it.  It seems most of the problem you're encountering
is with client-side XSL transformations.  I don't know what exactly
you're doing with the XML on the client side.  My version is just
sending the output of getRawText(user_key) across the wire.  I'd like
to send the transformed HTML, but I get a NullPointerExcepion when I
invoke ConverterFactory.getConverter() from my servlet.  When I
iterate over the Converters that it recognizes, the only one is the
ConfigurableSwingConverter, but even trying to retrieve that Converter
throws the exception on line 55 of ConverterFactory.java.  If I
understood more of how to pull the pure XML from the module and where
to find the XSLT, I could do the transformation client-side with GWT's
built-in XSL processor, as it would only make sense for me to be
displaying HTML and not RawText in a browser window.

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>  >
>  > There are still some rough edges with the interface - primarily it
>  > doesn't properly detect the books that are in a module at any given
>  > moment.  It does detect chapters-in-book and verses-in-chapter,
>  > though.  For now, you just have to assume that if you get to the verse
>  > display and there is no text (and no error box), then that module must
>  > not support that verse/book.  There are also additional GUI tweaks
>  > that will be needed to smooth the functioning of it, but this is just
>  > a quickly hobbled together patch-up.
>
>
>  One of the things that I think that is needed in JSword is that the
>  global key list actually reflect the content of the module. For Bibles
>  and commentaries, it assumes Gen-Rev. I'll probably do the same thing
>  I did for dictionaries there too.

I had tried that method (get the global key list, then try the
.contains() method) and to my surprise, it told me that all of the
Bible was available in the LXX.  I likewise tried catching exceptions
from the .getKey() method, but that seems to only throw them if the
Key doesn't exist in the Bible at all, rather than if it doesn't exist
in this module.  However, having each Bible support the
.booksInModule() as well as its own implementation of
.chaptersInBook() and .versesInChapter() would allow for ease of use
if alternate versification ever pops up.  Currently the BibleInfo
class works fine for the latter two, but I can't figure out any way to
narrow down the books available.  It sounds like this is a "ToDo" on
your list, though.

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>  > For the time being you can find the page at
>  > http://hellings.is-a-geek.com:8080/jsword-gwtweb/WebInterface.html
>  > (provided I did everything properly with DynDNS and my router).  The
>  > page itself may be up and down, seeing as it's currently hosted on my
>  > laptop until I move it onto one of my other machines this weekend.
>  > Let me know what you all think.
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