[sword-devel] CrossWire website needs Reader View

2019-02-09 Thread David Haslam
Is there someone capable of implementing Reader View for all the pages on our main site? Several years ago there was a splurge of activity to improve the pages, but we are now in the age of mobile phones. Best regards David Sent from ProtonMail Mobile__

[sword-devel] CrossWire website

2018-01-06 Thread David Haslam
Hi everyone, Is anyone looking after the CrossWire website these days? There are several out of date items in various pages on our main website. The site is not mobile friendly - there is no reader view in Safari, etc. Viewing our pages via a smart phone is difficult. Best regards, David Sent

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website showing all known modules available

2010-11-08 Thread DM Smith
On Nov 8, 2010, at 6:35 AM, Jonathan Morgan wrote: > I tend to dislike software that forces me to search in certain ways: whether > it's "You must select the language before we show you what's available" or > "You must select the type of book" or "You must select the publisher's > repository",

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website showing all known modules available

2010-11-08 Thread Brian J. Dumont
On 11/08/2010 09:50 AM, Peter von Kaehne wrote: > 1) Some of our Genbooks could easily be formatted as a commentary. > Probably it also should be done and that would remove one reason to look > somewhere else. But right now the distinction is not totally a sharp > one. Maybe it would be worthwhile

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website showing all known modules available

2010-11-08 Thread Peter von Kaehne
On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 07:57:51 -0500 Karl Kleinpaste wrote: > Jonathan Morgan writes: > > I tend to dislike software that forces me to search in certain ways: > > whether it's "You must select the language before we show you what's > > available" or "You must select the type of book" or "You must

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website showing all known modules available

2010-11-08 Thread Jonathan Morgan
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Karl Kleinpaste wrote: > Jonathan Morgan writes: >> I tend to dislike software that forces me to search in certain ways: >> whether it's "You must select the language before we show you what's >> available" or "You must select the type of book" or "You must select

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website showing all known modules available

2010-11-08 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
Jonathan Morgan writes: > I tend to dislike software that forces me to search in certain ways: > whether it's "You must select the language before we show you what's > available" or "You must select the type of book" or "You must select > the publisher's repository", there will be some times when

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website showing all known modules available

2010-11-08 Thread Jonathan Morgan
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Karl Kleinpaste wrote: > On the one hand, I appreciate a desire for a combined all-repos view of > what's available. It would be useful in some ways. On the other hand, > I find it problematic for several reasons. > > - It depends on finding all repos operating.

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website showing all known modules available

2010-11-07 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On the one hand, I appreciate a desire for a combined all-repos view of what's available. It would be useful in some ways. On the other hand, I find it problematic for several reasons. - It depends on finding all repos operating. Like it or not, repos go away for short or long periods, and the

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website showing all known modules available (was: Remote Module Repository Wiki)

2010-11-07 Thread Jonathan Morgan
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > On 11/05/2010 02:02 PM, Jonathan Morgan wrote: > > 2. Offering a list of downloads at CrossWire tends to suggest that they > > are the *only* books available. While I can download zip files from > > Xiphos FTP directly (for example), it's

[sword-devel] CrossWire website showing all known modules available (was: Remote Module Repository Wiki)

2010-11-05 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
On 11/05/2010 02:02 PM, Jonathan Morgan wrote: > 2. Offering a list of downloads at CrossWire tends to suggest that they > are the *only* books available. While I can download zip files from > Xiphos FTP directly (for example), it's not easy to find out about, and > I'm sure some people evaluate t

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website

2009-01-02 Thread Chris Morgan
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Peter von Kaehne wrote: > I also do think there should be ways of making it work with a single > sheet, making IE fail gracefully rather than badly. Any suggestions are > welcome. I presume the key will be around exploiting a non implemented > child/relation pseudo

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website

2009-01-02 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris Little wrote: > > > Peter von Kaehne wrote: >> With regard to browser inconsistencies I am trying to keep the two >> stylesheets in sync, but if I missed something, please tell me. >> >> I also do think there should be ways of making it work with a single >> sheet, making IE fail gracefully

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website

2009-01-02 Thread Chris Little
Peter von Kaehne wrote: With regard to browser inconsistencies I am trying to keep the two stylesheets in sync, but if I missed something, please tell me. I also do think there should be ways of making it work with a single sheet, making IE fail gracefully rather than badly. Any suggestions ar

[sword-devel] CrossWire website

2009-01-02 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris, I do think that this discussion should be on the list. Hence I take it back there. >> Peter von Kaehne said >> I do not experiment with live sites. > > Chris Little said > My comments pertained to the CrossWire site, which has seen various > experiments over the last few days, relating t

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-12 Thread Manfred Bergmann
Am 11.12.2008 um 22:19 schrieb Eeli Kaikkonen: > Manfred Bergmann wrote: >> >> This might be nitpicking but even though Java, QT, GTK, wxWindows and >> TclTk may work without X on Mac, they are not considered "native" >> concerning applications with GUI. Only Cocoa is. Carbon is dying, >> too.

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-11 Thread Jonathan Morgan
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:04 AM, DM Smith wrote: > David Haslam wrote: >> Why do we have things like this in the middle of sentences? >> >> " Bible Technologies Conference (http://www.bibletechnologies.org) " >> >> rather than a properly named external link with a hidden URL? >> >> " http://www.b

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-11 Thread DM Smith
David Haslam wrote: > Why do we have things like this in the middle of sentences? > > " Bible Technologies Conference (http://www.bibletechnologies.org) " > > rather than a properly named external link with a hidden URL? > > " http://www.bibletechnologies.org/ Bible Technologies Conference " > >

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-11 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
Manfred Bergmann wrote: > > This might be nitpicking but even though Java, QT, GTK, wxWindows and > TclTk may work without X on Mac, they are not considered "native" > concerning applications with GUI. Only Cocoa is. Carbon is dying, too. > > > Manfred > > It's nitpicking regarding the webp

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Ben Morgan wrote: > I agree that MacSword should be at the top. It is now > BPBible does run under Mac (with some slight problems), but I didn't > have time to package it up properly before the release of 0.4, so anyone > wanting to use it would have to install python 2.5 and wxPython and > build

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-11 Thread David Haslam
Why do we have things like this in the middle of sentences? " Bible Technologies Conference (http://www.bibletechnologies.org) " rather than a properly named external link with a hidden URL? " http://www.bibletechnologies.org/ Bible Technologies Conference " The URL would show in the browser

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-11 Thread Manfred Bergmann
Am 11.12.2008 um 21:59 schrieb DM Smith: > Manfred Bergmann wrote: >> Am 11.12.2008 um 21:13 schrieb Peter von Kaehne: >> >> If we have a Java section, I'm not sure all the java programs should also go into all the other groups, as well. I'm not sure what I think is be

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-11 Thread Ben Morgan
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 7:59 AM, DM Smith wrote: > Manfred Bergmann wrote: > > Am 11.12.2008 um 21:13 schrieb Peter von Kaehne: > > > > > >>> If we have a Java section, I'm not sure all the java programs should > >>> also go into all the other groups, as well. I'm not sure what I > >>> think > >

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-11 Thread DM Smith
Manfred Bergmann wrote: > Am 11.12.2008 um 21:13 schrieb Peter von Kaehne: > > >>> If we have a Java section, I'm not sure all the java programs should >>> also go into all the other groups, as well. I'm not sure what I >>> think >>> is best. But if the Java apps do go under all the other gr

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Manfred Bergmann wrote: > Am 11.12.2008 um 21:13 schrieb Peter von Kaehne: > >>> If we have a Java section, I'm not sure all the java programs should >>> also go into all the other groups, as well. I'm not sure what I >>> think >>> is best. But if the Java apps do go under all the other groups

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-11 Thread Manfred Bergmann
Am 11.12.2008 um 21:13 schrieb Peter von Kaehne: >> If we have a Java section, I'm not sure all the java programs should >> also go into all the other groups, as well. I'm not sure what I >> think >> is best. But if the Java apps do go under all the other groups, they >> should not have highe

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > Peter, > > Thank you again for owning this. Just a few quick comments. > > We have a google site search on the sword page which is really useful > for searching the mailing list archives (among other things on the > site). Maybe we could grab it from there. I notic

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-11 Thread DM Smith
Ryan wrote: >> need to find a solution as IE6 can not deal with transparency >> > > I sent this yesterday but it seems to have been missed so here it is > again... > > LOOK HERE --> http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/ or the original site > AND HERE --> http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/ f

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-11 Thread Ryan
> need to find a solution as IE6 can not deal with transparency I sent this yesterday but it seems to have been missed so here it is again... LOOK HERE --> http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/ or the original site AND HERE --> http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/ for the new site of a javascri

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-11 Thread Greg Hellings
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Peter von Kaehne wrote: > Greg Hellings wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Peter von Kaehne wrote: Agree with the OS icons being jittery and needing to be made more obvious. >>> Not jittery anymore, but a nbetter solution which is IE6 firm needs to >>

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-11 Thread DM Smith
Greg Hellings wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Peter von Kaehne wrote: > >>> Agree with the OS icons being jittery and needing to be made more obvious. >>> >> Not jittery anymore, but a nbetter solution which is IE6 firm needs to >> be found. >> > > Honestly? Do we really

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-11 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Peter, Thank you again for owning this. Just a few quick comments. We have a google site search on the sword page which is really useful for searching the mailing list archives (among other things on the site). Maybe we could grab it from there. My preference is that the Wiki, as a concept,

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Greg Hellings wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Peter von Kaehne wrote: >>> Agree with the OS icons being jittery and needing to be made more obvious. >> Not jittery anymore, but a nbetter solution which is IE6 firm needs to >> be found. > > Honestly? Do we really need to bend over backw

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-11 Thread Greg Hellings
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Peter von Kaehne wrote: >> Agree with the OS icons being jittery and needing to be made more obvious. > > Not jittery anymore, but a nbetter solution which is IE6 firm needs to > be found. Honestly? Do we really need to bend over backwards to support a browser th

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
DM Smith wrote: > Love the design! Thanks. It is athe old design, cleaned up. > Some nit-picks. I was waiting for that ;-) > Agree with the OS icons being jittery and needing to be made more obvious. Not jittery anymore, but a nbetter solution which is IE6 firm needs to be found. > IMHO, th

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
David Haslam wrote: > Hi Peter, > > First impressions are all positive. Here's some feedback. Thanks > > Suggestion: add a site search feature, it probably doesn't need to use > Javascript, just adapt Google to be a site specific search. It's free! > After an FAQ, most site visitors use a s

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Manfred Bergmann wrote: > Otherwise very nice. > Short and not overloaded. Texts have the right length. Like it. Thanks! ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubs

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: > It's definetely better, much better! Thanks! > One small graphical glitch: When I hover over the platform icons they > change their shape, namely grow taller. Nothing serious but looks weird > and disturbing because the whole row changes, not just the single icon. > Th

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
jhphx wrote: > It would probably be a good idea to have > few words to indicate to people like me that the icon bar is a menu for > finding compatible applications. Something simple, "Select an icon to > list compatible applications." Done ___ sword-

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Chris Little wrote: > Just a few quick comments: > > The page is looking nicely improved. I like that it is mostly visible > from within a single screenful, with minimal scrolling necessary. Thanks! > Most of my complaints probably pertain the the icon bar. There's the > strange mouseover grow

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Stephen Denne wrote: >> >From http://www.crosswire.org/index.jsp > Clicking on the mobiles icon went to > http://www.crosswire.org/index.jsp?section=Handhelds > But produced a 500 response with this stack trace: > Going instead to the Windows page, then clicking the mobiles page icon, went > to t

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-11 Thread Stephen Denne
>From http://www.crosswire.org/index.jsp Clicking on the mobiles icon went to http://www.crosswire.org/index.jsp?section=Handhelds But produced a 500 response with this stack trace: org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /index.jsp(171,1) File "/pages/applications.jsp" not found org.apache.ja

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-11 Thread Jonathan Morgan
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:09 PM, David Haslam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Suggestion: add a site search feature, it probably doesn't need to use > Javascript, just adapt Google to be a site specific search. It's free! > After an FAQ, most site visitors use a site search, even to find stuff > "sta

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-10 Thread DM Smith
Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: > DM Smith wrote: > >> I'd like to see the banner and sidebar fixed and the content of the page >> scroll (without frames, iframes or javascript). I'll see what I can do, >> but don't hold your breath:) >> >> >> > > Do you mean like this? http://www.student.oulu.f

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-10 Thread Mike Hart
the Library page is blank ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-10 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
DM Smith wrote: > > I'd like to see the banner and sidebar fixed and the content of the page > scroll (without frames, iframes or javascript). I'll see what I can do, > but don't hold your breath:) > > Do you mean like this? http://www.student.oulu.fi/~eekaikko/stimer/ But again, IE may ruin

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-10 Thread Sean Healy
Peter von Kaehne wrote: > I like my icon bar for looking at software categories, but am not > conviced yet by its handling. If someone has an idea how to make it less > jumpy I would be grateful. Here is a little something I just worked out. I changed only the CSS, not the HTML. It works on FF3

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-10 Thread Chris Little
Just a few quick comments: The page is looking nicely improved. I like that it is mostly visible from within a single screenful, with minimal scrolling necessary. Most of my complaints probably pertain the the icon bar. There's the strange mouseover growth behavior that others have mentioned. M

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-10 Thread DM Smith
Peter von Kaehne wrote: > Dear All, > > After a last late night session with Troy to hammer out wording and some > design flaws the new website for CrossWire is up and running. > > I have incorporated a lot of the ideas etc which were mentioned on the list. > > I am sure (actually I am aware of som

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-10 Thread Manfred Bergmann
Am 10.12.2008 um 17:22 schrieb Eeli Kaikkonen: > Peter von Kaehne wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> After a last late night session with Troy to hammer out wording and >> some >> design flaws the new website for CrossWire is up and running. >> >> > > One small graphical glitch: When I hover over the pl

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-10 Thread David Haslam
Post-script: This sentence, "Instead of having a geographic domain, CrossWire's domain is software users-- predominantly the global Internet-- or anyone we can reach across the wire." sort of excludes wireless. It shouldn't! Please add something humorous to be inclusive of the wireless world.

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-10 Thread David Haslam
Hi Peter, First impressions are all positive. Here's some feedback. Suggestion: add a site search feature, it probably doesn't need to use Javascript, just adapt Google to be a site specific search. It's free! After an FAQ, most site visitors use a site search, even to find stuff "staring t

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-10 Thread jhphx
Peter wrote: > I like my icon bar for looking at software categories, but am not > conviced yet by its handling. If someone has an idea how to make it less > jumpy I would be grateful. > I like it too. I am a bit slow though and don't alway suspect icons of hiding links I am interested in. Th

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-10 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
Peter von Kaehne wrote: > Dear All, > > After a last late night session with Troy to hammer out wording and some > design flaws the new website for CrossWire is up and running. > > It's definetely better, much better! One small graphical glitch: When I hover over the platform icons they chang

[sword-devel] CrossWire website up and running

2008-12-10 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Dear All, After a last late night session with Troy to hammer out wording and some design flaws the new website for CrossWire is up and running. I have incorporated a lot of the ideas etc which were mentioned on the list. I am sure (actually I am aware of some) there are enough problems left wit

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website / wiki

2008-11-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Karl Kleinpaste wrote: > Peter von Kaehne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Further we have lots of stale parts of the site - jira is one of them. >> many of the bugs posted are 2 or 3 years old (or older). > > It's policy for GnomeSword that the bug list in SF's tracker is > completely cleared befor

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website / wiki

2008-11-11 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
Peter von Kaehne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Further we have lots of stale parts of the site - jira is one of them. > many of the bugs posted are 2 or 3 years old (or older). It's policy for GnomeSword that the bug list in SF's tracker is completely cleared before the next release is made. This

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website / wiki [was: [OT] just join, testing only]

2008-11-11 Thread Peter von Kaehne
kylehr writes > For the newbs, by "project website" do you mean > /www.crosswire.org/wiki? No, and that is part of the problem. ;-) www.crosswire.org. scribe writes > And I'd love to give access to a few old-timer volunteers, who > understand our terminology and goals, to update the CrossW

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire website / wiki [was: [OT] just join, testing only]

2008-11-11 Thread Kyle Howland-Rose
For the newbs, by "project website" do you mean /www.crosswire.org/wiki? On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Troy A. Griffitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Top posting because I am commenting in general on this thread. > > The CrossWire main page should be very brief, concise, clean, hardly > ever ch

[sword-devel] CrossWire website / wiki [was: [OT] just join, testing only]

2008-11-10 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Top posting because I am commenting in general on this thread. The CrossWire main page should be very brief, concise, clean, hardly ever changed, and point people to project websites... and static. We have a very strange situation. CrossWire is intended for 2 very different groups of people.