[sword-devel] BPBible 0.5 released

[Greg Hellings]

Jon,

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Jonathan Morgan <jonmmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Jonathan,
>>
>> Just so I keep track in my brain, in versions <0.5 you had wxHTML as
>> your rendering engine, yes? And what are you upgrading to now?
>
>
> You are correct that the old rendering engine was wxHTML.
> The new one is XULRunner (at the moment, XR 1.9.2 - approx FF 3.6, though I
> hope that newer versions will be able to be used without too much trouble).

Uh-oh. Newer versions might be usable without much trouble - if they
are ever released! Mozilla declared some months back they have no
intention of continuing to release an embedable version of Gecko at
all. That's one of the major reasons that Xiphos just completed moving
from Xul to WebKit! There is a wx edition of WebKit, made by a guy who
had started with a wx embedding of Gecko before that was given up as
futile.

If Gecko/Xul ceases being good enough for you or stops updating, that
might be a direction worth considering in the future. It's been
underway for quite some time, but I have no idea how mature it has
ever become. It was originally started by one of the main wxHTML
developers who saw that wxHTML was woefully inadequate.

--Greg

>
> Jon
>
>>
>>
>> --Greg
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Jonathan Morgan <jonmmorgan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I have just released BPBible 0.5.  This is the first full version using
>> > a
>> > new rendering engine. Important additions include continuous scrolling,
>> > better support for languages with a Right to Left script such as Hebrew,
>> > and
>> > many other improvements.  It has not changed from BPBible 0.5 Beta 6.  A
>> > more detailed list of changes can be found at
>> > http://bpbible.com/news/bpbible-0.5-changes.
>> >
>> > Jon
>> >
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