Peter, (and others)
A couple of thoughts regarding this wiki.
First, I think it is going very well. Kudos to all that have helped. I
can see a lot of effort has gone into this!
I think it would be good to have an explanation of the column headings
under each table. Many of the headings are clear to us as developers,
some are not. (As shown by Brian's questions) Since the headings are
terse by nature, having an explanation for all would be good. I think
a simple list with the heading repeated in bold would be good.
Also, should every table repeat the OS listing? I think having it once
in the first table with a link on the page to CrossWire's home would
be sufficient.
In Him,
DM
On Mar 1, 2009, at 6:39 AM, Brian Fernandes wrote:
Peter,
Truly a great effort and a good list of features for frontend
authors to refer to and improve.
I want to edit the FireBible rows a bit, but would like to make a
few clarifications first; I will wait for your response before
editing the tables or you can go ahead and edit it yourself. Since
you left several columns blank for FireBible, I thought you may have
sent me an email with some questions but I haven't received anything
- so here is some info anyway.
1) Daily Devotionals
FB does support daily devotionals, so I've added a "yes" here. What
does Automatic mean though? Automatically brings up the devotional
when you start he application? Something I have been considering for
awhile.
2) Indexing (currently marked "no")
When you search a Bible using the toolbar, it is automatically
indexed if an index does not already exist (using JSword/Lucene) is
this the indexing you are talking about?
3) Archiving / New Content Immediately Avaialble
Can you explain what you mean by these two?
4) Image support
FireBible (since 0.8.5) does support Image Gen books and Map/Image
modules. It supports all image formats that Firefox can display, but
you cannot yet resize images.
5) Several texts open at the same time?
You can have multiple Firefox windows or multiple tabs open
simultaneously with sword content. Inbuilt side by side support does
not exist however, unless you install one of the Firefox split
window extensions. This is one of my todos.
6) Bookmarks
Anything you open in FireBible is bookmarkable and can be tagged.
You would bookmark and / or tag the "bible:// or sword://" URI being
displayed just like you would any other "http://"; URL. You can then
back them up, restore them, share them or export them. Maybe you can
even share them on delicious.com (not sure if they will accept other
protocols).
I assume these can be considered Nestable too because you are free
to make multi level bookmark folders into which you place these URIs.
Besides this, most content which appears in the central display area
(and not in the last container in the sidebar) also goes into your
Firefox history, just like any other site you visited.
You can also just type in the title of some content you have
bookmarked or recently visited in the "awesome bar" to bring it up.
e.g. I could type in "Genesis 20" in the address bar and Firefox
would probably show you "bible://gen.20.1-ff" as an auto complete
option, if I had bookmarked that URL or had been there recently.
I consider the above bookmarking behavior a significant plus point,
which I gained mostly for free once I decided to make FireBible URI
based.
Thanks again for the great effort,
Brian.
Peter von Kaehne wrote:
I have worked now several hours on the wiki comparison page.
What I tried to achieve is reduction of as many as possible entries
into
simple yes/no entries (+/- short comment) to make it as easy as
possible
to actually compare.
This meant obviously that the number of list columns has gone up
drastically to allow for all features, including the subfeatures of
features.
In particular I have tried to dissolve the unclassified "other"
category
as much as possible.
I have therefore grouped the features into categories. These are
hopefully self explanatory and widely acceptable.
I have taken no account of smoothness of operations, ease of
finding of
features, general beauty etc.
What becomes obvious is
a) BibleCS remains in the very top of our applications - only
Xiphos and
presumably (because I have not tested it) BT have the same wealth of
features and some more. All others are far behind in at least one
major
category, often in several.
b) The most glaring lack of too many applications in my opinion is
incomplete module support. Please do not take deficiences in this
area
as feature request but as a (show stopping?) bug.
c) A lot of the features presented as new in newer applications have
been present similar but under a different name in older.
d) Bookmarks/tags/lists - all these appear essentially similar as a
concept, but with some drastic differences in terms of access,
usability
and sub features. No application has a complete superset of all
others
in terms of subfeatures in this field. As a concept, bookmarks
appear to
me a version of lexicon (or possibly a structured GenBook)_- at least
this is how many frontends have gone (some like BibleSword even
bring a
lexicon like preloaded bookmark list)- but none actually have gone
the
whole hog and have created a user editable LexDict module with their
book marks. Take this as a hint :-)
I am very sure that I am biased. I have shot some emails to some of
you
if I could not find some features. Correct me if I got things wrong.
Peter
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