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<pre wrap="">For this reason, I'm really hoping we can move at a radical level
alongside Lynn Allan to offer modules in a format that we can handle
slickly!
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Just a thought: It should be possible to write a general purpose
filter that would take any module and output a module with only those
features that are desired. Perhaps this could be made part of the
download manager, web or otherwise.
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I guess I never revealed some results of some tests I ran, but I am 90%
certain that at most of the time processing is not taken up by loading
sword texts, rather it is taken up by the HTML rendering engine that
Windows CE has and add to this the sheer volume of text/tags that a
single chapter has (we currently process a chapter at a time) also adds
to the time, not loading but HTML parsing. Which I why I chose to write
my own text display which can use demand loading as opposed to loading
an entire chapter at once. <br>
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I do not believe we are trying to avoid the use of these tags,
otherwise your suggestion here would be an option. For example ESV has
tons of footnotes which is nice, when footnotes are off, the text loads
nearly instantaneous, when turned on and the text takes a few seconds
to load. So while we could offer a module without footnotes, we gain
very little in terms of speed since we can turn them off in software
and get the speed back. Also, I would like to stick with traditional
sword modules on the pocket pc so that the modules passed around on the
internet can be used in SwordReader as is.<br>
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In response to Barry's suggestion for using Lynn Allan's modules, I
will say that I am very hesitant to incorporate his stuff into
SwordReader. This is something I feel needs to be discussed more
thoroughly if we are to consider this an option. <br>
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I have more to say on all this, but I will save it for another email.<br>
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In Christ,<br>
David Trotz<br>
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