[sword-devel] Firefox front-end

Chris Little chrislit at crosswire.org
Mon Dec 10 14:04:26 MST 2007


We don't need to discuss it because it has already been defined, I 
believe fairly exhaustively. I would guess we discussed it 4-5 years ago.

If anyone wants to, I'm sure it would be appreciated if the private 
protocol details were copied from the email archives into the wiki.

--Chris


DJ Ortley wrote:
> Should we now discuss standardizing implementations?  Are people in
> favor of doing that?
> 
> -DJ
> 
> On Dec 10, 2007 10:02 AM, Karl Kleinpaste <karl at kleinpaste.org> wrote:
>> Daniel Blake <danblake at tcdr.com> writes:
>>> Reading your post reminded me of a
>>> discussion earlier this year.  I searched and found the thread I
>>> remembered.  It talks about individually implemented Sword protocols.
>> ...
>>> GnomeSword - sword://
>>> "GS understands "sword://ModuleName/KeyIntoThatModule" where the key
>>> is obviously a verse reference for Bibles and commentaries, but just
>>> as easily is a treekey for genbooks and lexdicts."
>> GnomeSword does this for both sword:// and bible:// equivalently,
>> implemented by creating needed GConf keys in /desktop/gnome/url-handlers.
>>
>> There has never been a standard defined for what should be done with
>> sword:// and bible://, which created a vacuum to be filled by individual
>> implementers, so we've each done something appropriate for our
>> respective environments.
>>
>>
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