[jsword-devel] jsword-devel Digest, Vol 47, Issue 8

DM Smith dmsmith555 at yahoo.com
Sat Apr 19 14:46:19 MST 2008 

Yiguang,
It sounds like you are using an earlier version of Sarissa. The latest  
does not use sarissa_dhtml.js.
DM

On Apr 19, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Yiguang Hu wrote:

> Please ignore my previous question. I changed with
> Sarissa.getDocument and also added sarissa_dhtml.js
> then it works now.
> Thanks
> Yiguang
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>>   1. Re: JSword servlet usage. (DM Smith)
>>   2. Re: JSword servlet usage. (Joe Walker)
>>   3. Re: [sword-devel] Web Front-end for JSword
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>>   4. Re: JSword servlet usage. (DM Smith)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:13:40 -0400
>> From: DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: Re: [jsword-devel] JSword servlet usage.
>> To: J-Sword Developers Mailing List
>> <jsword-devel at crosswire.org>
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>> I found out that this does not work on the Mac. I've
>> narrowed down the
>> problem to Safari not having an XSLT processor. I'm
>> looking into
>> alternatives.
>>
>> -- DM
>>
>> On Apr 18, 2008, at 1:42 PM, DM Smith wrote:
>>
>>> I have worked up an example, demo, starting point
>> of how to use JSword
>>> in a servlet using DWR - Direct Web Remoting.
>>>
>>> Here is a tutorial on how to do it:
>>> http://www.crosswire.org/jsword/tutorial.html
>>>
>>> Here is a somewhat working version of it.
>>> (I don't have any of these indexed, so search does
>> not work.)
>>> http://www.crosswire.org:8080/jsword/iBD.html
>>>
>>> This doesn't follow the tutorial exactly. I had to
>> tweak the dwr
>>> javascript inclusions.
>>>
>>> There are some shortcomings in this example:
>>> 1) Because all the links are handled via java
>> script, it never leaves
>>> the page. Hitting the brower's back button does
>> not take you to the
>>> prior verse. It would be really nice to have
>> history.
>>> 2) There are no options, e.g. show/hide
>> notes/Strong's/xrefs/verse
>>> numbers/verse per line, .... There should be.
>>> 3) This does no caching at all.
>>>   a) It should cache the XSLT processor. During
>> development, you
>>> don't
>>> want caching.
>>>   b) In doing options, we should cache the dom
>> for the current view.
>>> No sense in getting it again.
>>>   c) It may make sense to cache the dom for some
>> items in history.
>>> 4) It does not make good use of JavaScript. These
>> are pretty trivial.
>>>   a) Rather than notes in a sidebar, it would be
>> good to have a hover
>>> enabled popup of the note body.
>>>   b) Implement Strong's and Robinson's morphology
>> lookup into a
>>> popup.
>>> Currently, it does these are not handled at all.
>>>   c) Perhaps highlight all words on the page
>> having the same Strong's
>>> number.
>>>   d) The javascript constrains the return to 100
>> verses to prevent
>>> overloading the server with a request like:
>> Gen-Rev. It would be
>>> good to
>>> be able to get the next "n" verses.
>>>   e) Allow dictionary lookup of a displayed word.
>>>   f) The search input box and button should be
>> disabled when a book
>>> is
>>> not indexed.
>>> 5) It makes no use of Cookies:
>>>   a) It would be good to have it remember current
>> state
>>>      - Current Bible.
>>>      - Current passage.
>>>      - Last lookup
>>>      - History
>>>      - Settings, e.g. show hide
>>>   b) Allow the user to prune the Bible list to
>> only those that they
>>> care about.
>>> 6) Handle right-to-left languages.
>>> 7) Allow for the specification of where to look
>> for modules and an
>>> alternate location ~/.jsword. (This is a
>> shortcoming in JSword that
>>> should be fixed.)
>>>   Right now it looks at every conceivable
>> location for SWORD modules
>>> and it will let you specify additional locations.
>> There is no way to
>>> prune the list or to specify that it should only
>> look in a given
>>> location.
>>>   Right now it will only look at ~/.jsword, which
>> must be writable.
>>> In
>>> a Tomcat installation, this might not be a
>> desirable location. Today
>>> this can be changed by changing the jsword.home
>> property. There should
>>> be an easier way to override this.
>>> 8) It is not internationalized. It'd be cool to
>> grab the text from
>>> BibleDesktop.
>>> 9) The UI is merely functional. That is, it is
>> ugly. Make it look much
>>> nicer.
>>> ......
>>>
>>> I'd also like to add a menu and toolbar. Perhaps,
>> with the toolbar
>>> hiding the locate and search text inputs behind
>> icons.
>>>
>>> I'm sure you can add to this list. Feedback
>> welcomed.
>>>
>>> In Him,
>>>   DM
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:25:39 +0100
>> From: "Joe Walker" <joe at getahead.org>
>> Subject: Re: [jsword-devel] JSword servlet usage.
>> To: "J-Sword Developers Mailing List"
>> <jsword-devel at crosswire.org>
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> http://ajaxian.com/archives/xpathxslt-support-in-safari
>> Might help.
>>
>> Joe.
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 4:13 AM, DM Smith
>> <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I found out that this does not work on the Mac.
>> I've narrowed down the
>>
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