Re: [sword-devel] BibleTime or Sword crashes on startup on Mac OS X

2003-02-25 Thread Alfonso Guerra
On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 12:58 PM, Joachim Ansorg wrote: Hi! Strange. Seems it's nothing related to locale stuff. I attached new version of the localetest program. Could you please send me the new output? Checking working directory for mods.conf... Checking working directory for mods.

Re: [sword-devel] i18n of sword website

2003-02-25 Thread ytang0648
In a message dated 2/25/2003 12:06:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I'd suggest that there should be a way to download the 'translation > page' in a format that can be easily edited. A spreadsheet file is > one option though it requires people to have a spreadsheet >

Re: [sword-devel] i18n of sword website

2003-02-25 Thread ytang0648
In a message dated 2/25/2003 1:52:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Just a quick note, > we don't use gettext on bibletie.info anymore, because it turned out it's ways > too slow for websites where we had to check whether a > string is already > included in the catalogue

Re: [sword-devel] i18n of sword website

2003-02-25 Thread ytang0648
In Mozilla, we use ENTITY in DTD for XUL (XML based ui) files. We modify the expat to read in those DTD file based on a chrome locale. In C and JavaScript file while we need to display UI in the run time, we use Java's Property file format. Look at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/l10n/mlp_tool

Re: [sword-devel] i18n of sword website

2003-02-25 Thread ytang0648
I could provide some technolgy to dyanmically display different languages and seperate the text data from the html structure. Localization for HTML is always the headache. However, that is based on JavaScript and DOM Level 1. Not sure that will help if we cannot use client side JavaScript. Ther

Re: [sword-devel] Web Interface

2003-02-25 Thread ytang0648
In a message dated 2/25/2003 6:20:31 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Please be more carefull in your observations and conclusions. As > it became a number tossing game I would like to put an end > to fruitless > debates and concentrate on what is usefull. I apology. _

Re: [sword-devel] i18n of sword website

2003-02-25 Thread Daniel Glassey
One (imho) very important thing is the ability to edit the the translations offline. This would allow people on limited dialup to work on it. I'd suggest that there should be a way to download the 'translation page' in a format that can be easily edited. A spreadsheet file is one option though

Re: [sword-devel] i18n of sword website

2003-02-25 Thread Joachim Ansorg
Just a quick note, we don't use gettext on bibletie.info anymore, because it turned out it's ways too slow for websites where we had to check whether a string is already included in the catalogue. I'll write some comments on Troy's eMail soon. Joachim > Troy, > > I don't really know the matte

Re: [sword-devel] i18n of sword website

2003-02-25 Thread Martin Gruner
Troy, I don't really know the matter very well, but I'll say something anyway, risking mistakes. Joachim, maybe you can comment on this. The main objection I'd have is that you need to reinvent the wheel completely. The GNU gettext package offers so many cool features that you would not implem

Re: [sword-devel] i18n of sword website

2003-02-25 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Joachim, I had a look at the i18n taglib from jakarta and don't like it. I don't like the idea of replacing all strings in the source files with some key name. It makes the page very unreadable. Martin showed me some of your stuff earlier today and it was great. Here's my plan for a jsp imp

Re: [sword-devel] Number games

2003-02-25 Thread YTang0648
In a message dated 2/25/2003 1:42:27 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We're all sinners and fall short of the glory of God anyway. :) you are right.

Re: [sword-devel] Web Interface

2003-02-25 Thread YTang0648
In a message dated 2/25/2003 1:22:14 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can use DHTML layers. These can contain markup as well. No layer please. It is not part of HTML4.0

Re: [sword-devel] New to the List

2003-02-25 Thread YTang0648
ok, since I am also new to the list. Let me say something about myself. My name is Frank Yung-Fong Tang. I usually use email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I work for Netscape (and now part of AOL Time Waner) since Sept 1995. Before that I work for Apple Computer (1992-1995), and Institute for Inform

[sword-devel] Number games

2003-02-25 Thread Christian Renz
Who start the number game here? Who start to count the % number of language module download? Who start to quote the number and % in this mailling list? The point is not who started it. The point is that we _all_ have the power to stop it. If you feel that numbers are irrelevant, why not stop replyi

[sword-devel] No more standards

2003-02-25 Thread Christian Renz
I do not want to be a trouble maker, but was that a "yes" or a "no" to using valid markup (X)HTML according to W3c web standards? If yes, what DOCTYPE? I agree with Troy in this issue; I also think that at this moment there is no further need to discuss which standards are going to be used. Compare

Re: [sword-devel] Web Interface

2003-02-25 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 2/25/2003 12:22:49 AM Pacific Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > I think we all know there are lies, big lies and statistics. > > Who start the number game here? Who start to count the % number of language > module

Re: [sword-devel] Web Interface

2003-02-25 Thread Christian Renz
does not crop it until character 807. But if we want to put the entire strongs definition in there, I think we could probably come up with a better You can use DHTML layers. These can contain markup as well. Greetings, Christian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.web42.com/crenz/ - http://www.we

Re: [sword-devel] i18n of sword website

2003-02-25 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Joachim, I think what you did with bibletime.info is really great. I'm not sure how much of the technical framework we'd be willing to use on crosswire, but the concepts are awesome. I'd really like to get some more detailed explanations of your implementation and see if we can come up with a

Re: [sword-devel] i18n of sword website

2003-02-25 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
ok guys. I'm really not sure what we're talking about. If we do a localization of anything, it will not be extra work (on our end) to allow it support other languages. Please don't feel your language group will be left out. If you can get a browser to render it, and we add localization (which

Re: [sword-devel] Web Interface

2003-02-25 Thread YTang0648
In a message dated 2/25/2003 12:22:49 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think we all know there are lies, big lies and statistics. Who start the number game here? Who start to count the % number of language module download? Who start to quote the number and % in this mailling

Re: [sword-devel] i18n of sword website

2003-02-25 Thread YTang0648
In a message dated 2/25/2003 12:07:12 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think the list of most important languages is not important.  Given the difficulty we've had even getting people to translate those few strings for book names and the UIs and the fact that we can't make a

Re: [sword-devel] Web Interface

2003-02-25 Thread YTang0648
In a message dated 2/24/2003 11:58:19 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: More or less correct, but it's not exactly clear whether they're counting, for example, the 1/3 of Malaysians who can read Chinese in both their Chinese and Bahasa Malaysia statistics (which they should, an

Re: Standards (was: Re: [sword-devel] Web Interface)

2003-02-25 Thread Victor Porton
> Troy, > > I do not want to be a trouble maker, but was that a "yes" or a "no" to using > valid markup (X)HTML according to W3c web standards? If yes, what DOCTYPE? > The only reason I ask is for consistency in development. May I suggest > structural XHTML 1.0 Transitional. As the New York Public

Re: [sword-devel] Web Interface

2003-02-25 Thread YTang0648
In a message dated 2/24/2003 4:00:59 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think we could probably come up with a better method, still short of reverting to _javascript_. Will the attached page will only use CSS2 without any _javascript_. However, since it heavely use CSS2, it wo

Re: [sword-devel] Web Interface

2003-02-25 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Chris Little wrote: > On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > (21) Chinese. There are 56.6 M people online in mainland China, according to > > a report released by the ... > > > > I believe the 2.26M people in Singapore online, 5.7 M Malaysians online, and >

Re: [sword-devel] i18n of sword website

2003-02-25 Thread Chris Little
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Daniel Glassey wrote: > well, with the debate raging about plans for the web interface and > the importance of non-English stuff () it seems like a good time to > bring up the idea of translating the sword website into (at minimum) > appropriate languages, imho these would