[sword-devel] GRAPHICS help / CSS help / TRANSLATION help / JSP help

[John.Caro.std]

Troy,
I really like what you are trying to do.  Hovever, this UI Strategy of 
popping up reference windows works just ok on biblija.net, as it uses only 2 
references and has much smaller font.
However you have a lot more references with the possibility of more in the 
future.
In my opinion this approach makes this confusing if not also buggy.
Would you consider an alternate UI strategy?

John Caro
15047 Silver Leaf Ct.
Montclair, Va 22025
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Troy A. Griffitts" <scribe at crosswire.org>
To: <sword-devel at crosswire.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 4:04 PM
Subject: [sword-devel] GRAPHICS help / CSS help / TRANSLATION help / JSP 
help


>I know that many of you linger on here and have hidden talents which aren't 
>requested on a consistent basis.  We would really like to do some aesthetic 
>cleanup on swordweb.  Here are some items we could use help with.
>
> 1. Design small icons for [NOTE] and [CROSS-REFERENCE] indicators shown 
> inline in the text.  See:
>
> http://crosswire.org/study/passagestudy.jsp?Footnotes=On&Cross-references=Off
>
> and notice the superscripted 'n' and 'x'.  We would like to replace these 
> with nice little icons.
>
> Notice that swordweb has different 'Styles'.
>
> http://crosswire.org/study/passagestudy.jsp?setStyle=Washed+Out
> http://crosswire.org/study/passagestudy.jsp?setStyle=Parchment
> http://crosswire.org/study/passagestudy.jsp?setStyle=Sandy+Creek
>
> We could use a set of Note/XRef icons to match each style.
>
> Be fun, stylish, creative, mysterious :)
>
> I just switched from GNOME to the yet-to-be-released Enlightenment E17 
> (http://enlightenment.org/Enlightenment/DR17/).  It's so much faster and 
> prettier than GNOME-- not to mention more highly configurable.  Though, I 
> could just be anesthetized by their sleek graphics.  Let's make our study 
> site aesthetically pleasing too!
>
>
> 2. The current CSS for swordweb has evolved into an overly complex state. 
> There are many style classes that are duplicated, and although it might 
> give us more control, it's not likely that people will want to change many 
> of these independent of each other.  We would like to boil the CSS down by 
> consolidating classes with duplicate attributes, and which make sense to 
> combine.  This will also involve updating the HTML in the .jsp files to 
> reflect the consolidated set of style classes.
>
>
> 3. There is quite a bit of content on the home and FAQ pages which is 
> outdated, overly verbose, or site specific.  If we could update some of 
> these, and include others with page includes, allowing sites to provide 
> their own home page center content, it would allow easier updates for 
> sites wishing to stay abreast of the latest features in swordweb without 
> having to worry about losing pages they likely have customized for their 
> user base.
>
> 4. Move many configuration options currently in init.jsp, out to a 
> sysConfig.properties file.  Basically, this involves placing code in 
> init.jsp similar to:
>
>
> java.util.Properties sysConfig = (java.util.Properties) session.
>                                          getAttribute("sysConfig");
> if (sysConfig == null) {
>   java.util.Properties sysConfig = new java.util.Properties();
>   java.io.File propName = new java.io.File(session.getServletContext()
>       .getRealPath("/WEB-INF/sysConfig.properties"));
>   if (propName.exists()) {
>     try {
>       java.io.FileInputStream propFile
>           = new java.io.FileInputStream(propName);
>       sysConfig.load(propFile);
>       propFile.close();
>     } catch (Exception e) {}
>   }
>   session.setAttribute("sysConfig", sysConfig);
> }
>
>
> Then we can move stuff like defaultBible into the sysConfig.properties 
> file.
>
>
> 5. TRANSLATORS: after cleanup in #3 is finished, we need your help to 
> translate the user interface.  We have a facility in place which will 
> allow you to translate pages for your language.  This work can begin right 
> away, but the FAQ/Help/Main pages will need to be translated after they've 
> been updated.
>
>
> Thank you for considering to help.  Sharing with you in service for our 
> Lord,
>
> -Troy A. Griffitts
>
>
>
>
>
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