[jsword-devel] Future Direction for BibleDesktop

[Adam Thomas]

Peter von Kaehne wrote:
>> I am quite familiar with "rich" HTML rendering in desktop applications,
>> however if a user wants a web application, they will use one. Check out:
>> http://www.ebible.com/ for an example of what I am trying to say. There
>> are tons and tons of web-based applications to read the Bible. With Web
>> 2.0 and 3.0 and AJAX, etc etc etc they can feel just like desktop
>> applications complete with persistence. Why bother creating a desktop
>> Bible application simply to embed web technologies? I personally don't
>> see the benefit.
>>     
>
> I am not at all sure whether I foillow you here. The reason for the
> search for a new renderer is related directly with serious deficiencies
> of the current one - inability to display several scripts at the same
> time, inability tod eal adequatly with complex scripts. Anything
> replacing the current way of rendering needs to be better. This has
> little or nothing to do with creating a webapplication.
>   

Maybe I am the one who isn't understanding. I wasn't meaning that 
BibleDesktop is a web application. Are you guys referring to embedding 
an HTML renderer so you can do things like create links in the 
scriptures and have rich content displayed in the Bible texts?

I agree that better alternatives should be pursued, I just want to 
better understand what you are trying to do.

Thanks,
Adam
> My understanding is that embedded browsers offer just this, though I am
> sure that there are other ways to get text rendered well too. It just
> needs to be better than what is there. The bar is set high with Xiphos
> using pango-graphite and xul.
>
> Peter
>
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