On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 01:57:41PM -0600, Greg Hellings wrote:
Multiple efforts have been made to allow JavaScript implementations to directly read a Sword module file format, but this can be fraught with difficulty.
Well, this seems to be dismissing a possibility of only-JS Sword app too quickly. Especially, considering that I have https://github.com/zefanja/biblez-ng installed on my Firefox OS and it works.
But of course, let all flowers bloom, we can have multiple solutions to one problem. However, I see immediately couple of problems:
* Offline access. Of course, we can store megabyte JSONs in the phone, instead of storing native XML, but I am not sure dealing with huge JSONs is that much faster than some reasonably good access to XML? Is it? How large is the Book of Psalms in JSON? And if you say that users are online 100% time than it is just not true. Firefox OS is meant for low-end phones in poor countries where 3G bandwidth (don’t even start to hope for 4G) is quite often metered. Heck, it is metered even here in relatively affluent Prague, Czechia (and I know that this is not that much huge exception of Czechia). Not mentioning metro, inside of churches, and other closed spaces where connection is either extremely poor or non-existent. * OSIS uses almost universally milestoned-XML and there is a reason for that. It seems to me that JSON is by its nature exact opposite of milestones. How would you deal with chapters, verses, pericopes, crossing each other?
The README file has basic build and run directions. I have a sample of it up and running at http://www.thehellings.com:10001/ and ws://
And front-end demo (Web or CLI)? Blessings, Matěj -- http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/, Jabber: mcepl<at>ceplovi.cz GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC Data matures like wine, applications like fish. -- James Governor http://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2007/04/05\ /why-applications-are-like-fish-and-data-is-like-wine/
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