[sword-devel] Idea: integrating with webbrowsers

[Don A. Elbourne Jr.]

You have to have the latest build of Sword for Windows for the Sword link to
work, and you must have Logos Series X for the other link to work.

by grace alone,

Don A. Elbourne Jr.
http://elbourne.org


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bobby Nations" <bobby@bobbynations.com>
To: <sword-devel@crosswire.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Idea: integrating with webbrowsers


> Nifty!  Well, sortof nifty.  The links don't seem to work at this time.
>  What's the trick for making it work?  I'm trying to click either link
> from MSIE 6.0 and getting nothing in return.  Any suggestions?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bobby
>
>
> Chris Little wrote:
>
> > We have this already.  See the bottom link at
> > http://www.crosswire.org/~chrislit/testlinks.html for a demonstration
> > of our private protocol.  It works in MSIE on Windows.
> >
> > I'm not sure how it could be made to work in other browsers or on
> > other platforms.  It is not reasonable to expect other projects to
> > accept private protocol patches for our needs.
> >
> > --Chris
> >
> > porton@narod.ru wrote:
> >
> >> We now discuss how to make tools for easy converting of web sites to
> >> Sword modules. (About SwordWriter etc.)
> >>
> >> But may be the following would be better: add to the OS new URL
> >> handler (sword: or bible: in addition to http: ftp: etc.) and so just
> >> integrate sword with commonly used HTML/XML readers such as Internet
> >> Explorer.
> >>
> >> I haven't checked (I have completely no time!) whether it is possible
> >> and simple Windows; with Linux we can, even if it is currently
> >> impossible, submit appropriate patches which would allow creation of
> >> new URL types, to Mozilla, Gnome, and KDE teams.
> >>
> >> So will be no need to create separate web site and separate Sword
> >> module for Christian books which are not somehow special and not need
> >> very deep integration with Sword. (E.g. this would be not appropriate
> >> with Bible commentaries deeply linked with verses (comment to every
> >> verse in certain range of verses), but would be quite appropriate
> >> with books considering a topic from Bible (e.g. Biblical concept of
> >> prosthood.))
> >
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