Re: [sword-devel] Google eBooks

2010-12-06 Thread Matthew Talbert
> I would think some of the HTML widgets which our applications use > might be use could potentially know how to handle an external > application already to display a PDF (MacSword's embedding of Safari > and possibly BT's embedding of QWebKit?  Maybe Xiphos with Xulrunner? > Would be an interestin

Re: [sword-devel] Google eBooks

2010-12-06 Thread Greg Hellings
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Chris Little wrote: > On 12/6/2010 9:34 AM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > As far as selection of non-PD material goes, I'm not terribly impressed. > Amazon, Apple, & Google each have different sets books available, but I > believe Amazon still leads overall. Completel

Re: [sword-devel] Google eBooks

2010-12-06 Thread Chris Little
On 12/6/2010 9:34 AM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: Google Books-- what in its previous incarnation became http://print.google.com -- has been re-issued as an an online eBook store: http://books.google.com/help/ebooks/overview.html How does this affect us, and could we build a ModDrv for the Google

Re: [sword-devel] Looking for help/direction with Scriptural Archiving Study Project

2010-12-06 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Dear Jonathan, Thank you for being interested! Yes, this is exactly what we'd like to build for INTF, ITSEE, CSNTM, and CNTTS (I trust people can google if they're not familiar with the acronyms above and below, but if you're interested in the TC world these are probably familiar to you) Where w

Re: [sword-devel] Google eBooks

2010-12-06 Thread David Haslam
Troy, Presumably you're thinking of the latter part of the sentence, "We offer the world's largest selection of ebooks -- hundreds of thousands of new titles for purchase, in addition to nearly 3 million free ebooks." ? I suppose that Google is doing this in direct competition with Amazon ? Dav

[sword-devel] Google eBooks

2010-12-06 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Google Books-- what in its previous incarnation became http://print.google.com -- has been re-issued as an an online eBook store: http://books.google.com/help/ebooks/overview.html How does this affect us, and could we build a ModDrv for the Google eBook format for our engine so we could be a spec

Re: [sword-devel] Looking for help/direction with Scriptural Archiving Study Project

2010-12-06 Thread Peter von Kaehne
If you look into the archives you will see that Troy called for volunteers to do just that. There is an application and a group fo volunteers dealing with exactly this on the CrossWire community site Peter Original-Nachricht > Datum: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 10:35:28 -0500 > Von: jonath

[sword-devel] Looking for help/direction with Scriptural Archiving Study Project

2010-12-06 Thread jonathan batteas
I will try to keep this brief, I've been a member of this mailing list for years, and i'm really wanting to start working on a project that has been sitting in the back of my mind for quite a while. However, the programming is a little beyond my scope. I'm writing here to see if anyone woul

Re: [sword-devel] XSLT vs. C++

2010-12-06 Thread David Hollands
Amen! http://hixie.ch/advocacy/xslt Love in Christ, David On 30 November 2010 19:08, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > Having finally returned from a hectic 2 weeks of conferences, and lots > to do before leaving for Christmas, I'm not sure I'm up for a heated, > passionate debate about technologies