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Sounds interesting, Brian. 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.<br>
<br>
I was going to put a link to the thread in the <a
href="http://www.crosswire.org/pipermail/sword-devel/">sword-devel
Archives</a> but I found the March 2007 archive incomplete.<br>
<b>"Archived on:</b> <i>Mon Mar 12 13:42:02 MST 2007</i>" so
everything after that isn't available.<br>
<br>
If you still have them locally, look for the subject "Sword URL" on
3/13/2007. It was an off shoot of the subject "dynamic versification"<br>
<br>
Specifically it mentions these implementations.<br>
MacSword - sword://<br>
"MacSword has installed a protocol handler into the Safari web browser
so that the sword:// urls are passed off to MacSword, starting it if it
is not running, rather than displaying them in the browser. (It doesn't
work very well and I can get it to crash MacSword)"<br>
<br>
JSword - bible://<br>
"With JSword, I have played with embedding IE and FireFox as the
display engine for BibleDesktop."<br>
<br>
GnomeSword - sword://<br>
"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."<br>
<br>
Hope this is helpful.<br>
Daniel Blake<br>
<br>
Brian Fernandes wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hey Guys,
I've implemented a Sword front-end (using JSword) as a Firefox extension.
Here is a a screenshot of what I have so far:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://thegoan.com/bible/esv-exodus-2.png">http://thegoan.com/bible/esv-exodus-2.png</a>
I haven't spent any time prettying it up, just using the styled text
output from JSword verbatim.
I would like to know if this is going to be useful to our community. I
know there are many great front-ends already, but some people (like me)
would also like to use something that is integrated with FF (just a
notch above the people who do everything in emacs :)) Or has something
similar already been done?
To use this you would need the JSword libraries and the extension which
should work in Firefox 1 and up. Implementing this however has not been
too easy; so I would like to gauge the interest in using such an
extension before proceeding or taking it too far. Right now the
extension is really a prototype in POC stage and only handles Bibles. I
will implement a "bible" protocol, so typing in something like
bible://Exod.15.20 into your address bar would take you to that
particular book, chapter and verse.
I really would like to see this through, but perhaps not if it isn't
going to be useful. Kudos to the sword and jsword teams for such
excellent resources.
Would appreciate any thoughts and ideas,
Best regards,
Brian.</pre>
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