[sword-devel] Bible web site show up in w3c.org site as example of technology

[Chris Little]

On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 YTang0648@aol.com wrote:

> What is the best way to display interlinear text in html? Here is your answer 
> :)
> 
> I just help my friend who produce the Chinese Bible site (bible.fhl.net) to 
> change the html tag they use to display strong number to the new w3c 
> recommendation <ruby> tag. 
> 
> And after that, I recommended to the w3c.org CSS and RUBY editors to use that 
> site as demo cases for <ruby>
> 
> So... now w3c.org list that Bible site as an example how people use the 
> standard they define :)
... 
> We could use the same method to display Greek interlinear text :) 

I've been playing with some OSIS to XHTML XSLTs and thought of your 
mention of Ruby when I looked at interlinearization of data encoded with 
the OSIS <w> tag.  It does look like it will be the way to present 
interlinearized text someday, but not yet.

In all my research, the only browsers I have found that implement XHTML 
1.1 correctly, with Ruby annotation, are IE6 and W3C's own Amaya.  And IE6 
doesn't yet handle CSS3-Ruby (I know it's still a WD) which severly limits 
its abilities, especially when more than one ruby is attached to a single 
base text.

I posted a screenshot of Ruby in action at 
http://www.crosswire.org/~chrislit/pics/rubycontrasts.png .
The two left windows show IE6, the two right windows show Mozilla 1.3.  
The two upper windows show a demo of Ruby from i18nguy.com and the lower 
windows show a Greek OSIS text with morphology & Strong's numbers 
associated with each word.

Do you have any idea when Gecko will support XHTML 1.1 fully, including 
Ruby?  It would be very nice to be able to display interlinear text this 
way whenever we get Gecko integrated with BibleCS for display.

--Chris