[sword-devel] Mobile HTML JavaScript - Bishop + Designers, Help Wanted

[Troy A. Griffitts]

So, you probably all know we have an Android and iOS SWORD app which is
built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

You also probably know that I suck at HTML, CSS (I am mostly OK with
JavaScript), and at aesthetics, in general.  You can see the screenshots
here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.crosswire.bishop

The app is pretty functional.  It support parallel views of up to 3
Bibles at a time.  I has a vertical split view for original language
assistance.  It supports Bibles, Commentaries, and Lexicon /
Dictionaries.  It is still lacking support for Daily Devotionals and
General Books.  It also uniquely has ancient New Testament manuscript
resources and collation integrated.

This weekend, I began to internationalize the application (see following
email), pulling all text strings out into a localized file.  While doing
this work, I realized how bad the UI actually looks and started to swap
out the side menu tray... and then realized, why am I doing this?  We
have engineers who have subscribed to this list who want to help things
like this, and who don't suck at HTML and CSS.

So, have a look at the screenshots at the link above.  They show most of
the functionality.  Download the app and play with it.  It should work
generally the same on both Android and iOS.  Be sure to let the app
download the initial module set it wants to download upon first run.  If
you have any exciting ideas how to better present the functionality you
see in the app, please feel free to take a shot at it.

The git repo can be found here:

https://git.crosswire.org/main/bishop/

The ugly HTML, CSS, and JavaScript can be browsed directly here:

https://git.crosswire.org/main/bishop/tree/master/www

Thank you for any interest and any contributions you might feel led to
volunteer,

Troy