You might take a look at the HREFCom driver. It's designed to display
the contents of an URL within a commentary window. I believe each verse
entry simply consists of the URL. Support is possibly lacking in front
ends, but I could be wrong.
--Chris
On 10/13/2011 4:27 PM, Mike Hart wrote:
The other day I had an idea to provide a "Bible Gateway" module which
contains URL links to the current verse for each copyrighted version
available on Bible Gateway. While this doesn't exactly solve copyrighted
texts displaying within the sword platform, it reduces the time required
to do comparisons against the most popular English texts. (That is, if
it works.) If the links can be made to open in a regular browser, I'm
fairly confident this is fair use. (It should be fair use even in a
front end, but Bible Gateway is ensured their ad revenue in a browser,
where a sword frontend may or may not handle all the bits required for
ads properly.)
Is there sword markup language that supports Links out? Is there a front
end that handles http URL's? Which ML is the preferred for WWW links (in
commentaries)?
I put together a test module with plain html, which I built with IMP2VS
(win32). When I open the module as a text, the links display inside of
BibleTime 2.9b1 correctly, but clicking them causes the URL to take over
the entire current pane within BT, instead of sending the URL to the
system defined browser (what I expected to happen.) BT renders html
well, but the link took over all 3 collumns of a parallel display,
forcing a verse change to repair the display.
When this module is viewed as a commentary (which is really more the
intended use), the text of the link "<a href=...." appears for each entry.
Is this methodology on the roadmap? Is it shunned as bad technology? Is
this module (or it's grandchild) something that belongs in the
development repo? (Currently the module is for NIV only... when I tried
to multiply it by the dozen or so English texts, it overloaded my system.)
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