[sword-devel] JavaScript & SWORD modules

[Matej Cepl]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 01:57:41PM -0600, Greg Hellings wrote:
>Multiple efforts have been made to allow JavaScript 
>implementations to directly read a Sword module file format, 
>but this can be fraught with difficulty.

Well, this seems to be dismissing a possibility of only-JS Sword 
app too quickly. Especially, considering that I have 
https://github.com/zefanja/biblez-ng installed on my Firefox OS 
and it works.

But of course, let all flowers bloom, we can have multiple 
solutions to one problem. However, I see immediately couple of 
problems:

 * Offline access. Of course, we can store megabyte JSONs in the 
   phone, instead of storing native XML, but I am not sure 
   dealing with huge JSONs is that much faster than some 
   reasonably good access to XML? Is it? How large is the Book 
   of Psalms in JSON?
   And if you say that users are online 100% time than it is 
   just not true. Firefox OS is meant for low-end phones in poor 
   countries where 3G bandwidth (don’t even start to hope for 
   4G) is quite often metered. Heck, it is metered even here in 
   relatively affluent Prague, Czechia (and I know that this is 
   not that much huge exception of Czechia). Not mentioning 
   metro, inside of churches, and other closed spaces where 
   connection is either extremely poor or non-existent.
 * OSIS uses almost universally milestoned-XML and there is 
   a reason for that. It seems to me that JSON is by its nature 
   exact opposite of milestones. How would you deal with 
   chapters, verses, pericopes, crossing each other?

>The README file has basic build and run directions. I have 
>a sample of it up and running at 
>http://www.thehellings.com:10001/ and ws://

And front-end demo (Web or CLI)?

Blessings,

Matěj

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