Re: [sword-devel] Web Interface

2003-02-24 Thread Chris Little
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You can look at your number from this angle, or you can look at this > number from an ROI angle > > Which is Number of Dowload of that languages / Number of module that you > offer in that langauage > > If you offer 10 moues in language A and 1 moudle

Re: [sword-devel] Web Interface

2003-02-24 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
:) I've visited your site. Honestly, it's hard for me to say, as I cannot read any of it! :) I'm grateful that there is a site dedicated to Chinese Bible Study! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 2/23/2003 6:33:07 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joachim, Thank

Re: [sword-devel] Web Interface

2003-02-24 Thread Martin Gruner
> A good Bible software should also offer map. Not sure how many people check > my http://chinesebiblesrc.sourceforge.net/maptest.html";>http://chinesebi >blesrc.sourceforge.net/maptest.html > > Wonder how can text base browser ever support map Well, do you think there would be any way to int

Re: [sword-devel] Web Interface

2003-02-24 Thread Derek Neighbors
Chris Little said: > Though I agree portability should be a goal, I think these are actually > minor concerns. There aren't going to be and don't need to be throngs Perhaps, I didnt put in good terms. The more you deviate from the Free Software user base the less help you get. The less help you

Re: [sword-devel] Web Interface

2003-02-24 Thread Chris Little
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Derek Neighbors wrote: > Perhaps, I didnt put in good terms. The more you deviate from the Free > Software user base the less help you get. The less help you get the more > your product suffers. Let's say for example I pick a license that is > 'incompatable' with the GNU GP

Re: [sword-devel] Web Interface

2003-02-24 Thread ytang0648
In a message dated 2/24/2003 12:59:05 AM Eastern Standard Time, YTang0648 writes: > In a message dated 2/22/2003 9:16:03 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > writes: > > Okay, my guestimates were off. I ran statistics on our downloads in the > last 5 weeks 76% of downloads were of Engl

Re: [sword-devel] Web Interface

2003-02-24 Thread ytang0648
In a message dated 2/24/2003 3:38:20 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The site > you referenced unfortunately assumes everyone in the world > is monolingual. Which site you referenced to is NOT monolingual? ___ sword-devel mailin

Re: [sword-devel] Web Interface

2003-02-24 Thread ytang0648
In a message dated 2/24/2003 3:37:23 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > :) I've visited your site. Honestly, it's hard for me to say, as I > cannot read any of it! :) I'm grateful that there is a > site dedicated > to Chinese Bible Study! > OK, let's do this. I will make

Re: [sword-devel] Web Interface

2003-02-24 Thread ytang0648
In a message dated 2/24/2003 6:40:34 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Well, do you think there would be any way to integrate a map feature into the > sword library? That is something that people always > requested but nobody > implemented. > First of all, we don't have

Re: [sword-devel] Web Interface

2003-02-24 Thread Derek Neighbors
> I think this has been mentioned a few times before, but "Free Software" > isn't really part of CrossWire's goal. Our use of GPL as a license is > mostly the result of history and not having anything identifiably > better. The politics of Free Software are irrelevent to our mission > and GPL i

[sword-devel] i18n of sword website

2003-02-24 Thread Daniel Glassey
well, with the debate raging about plans for the web interface and the importance of non-English stuff () it seems like a good time to bring up the idea of translating the sword website into (at minimum) appropriate languages, imho these would do for starters: Important imho: German Chinese Tra

Re: [sword-devel] i18n of sword website

2003-02-24 Thread Christian Renz
bring up the idea of translating the sword website into (at minimum) appropriate languages, imho these would do for starters: This is a really important point I missed in my list of improvements that are IMO necessary for the Sword website :) _If_ there is going to be a change to the website this

Re: [sword-devel] i18n of sword website

2003-02-24 Thread ytang0648
This is a good idea. I will say Korean and Spanish should be in the frist tier for sure. Not sure about Thai and Arabic. Why Korean should be first tier? 1. According to http://www.glreach.com/globstats/ The ranking of the language used on the net is English 36.5% Chinese (combined with Trad

Re: [sword-devel] Web Interface

2003-02-24 Thread Chris Little
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The site you referenced unfortunately assumes everyone in the world is > > monolingual. > > Which site you referenced to is NOT monolingual? huh? My point was just that this site: http://www.glreach.com/globstats/ only shows statistics for "nativ

Re: [sword-devel] Web Interface

2003-02-24 Thread Klaus R. H. Walther
Hello, Am Sonntag, 23. Februar 2003 16:23 schrieb Joachim Ansorg: > me and my brother spent some minutes on a possible layout and came up with > http://joachim.ansorgs.de/sword/. This is just a suggestion. The navigation > window is on the left. There can be multiple windows which are used to rea

Re: [sword-devel] Web Interface

2003-02-24 Thread Klaus R. H. Walther
Hello Am Freitag, 21. Februar 2003 23:10 schrieb Troy A. Griffitts: > I'd love to get input on what features you like/use from other sites, > and what you would like a web interface to a Bible study tool to look like. I would suggest a two level support for users. One level for anonymous users a

Re: [sword-devel] Web Interface

2003-02-24 Thread Joachim Ansorg
Yes, it uses Javascript. Nothing I would use on a serious web app, but it's useful to position windows, resize them and to popup windows with hidden toolbar or menubar, so navigation windows are not full of browser bars. Joachim > Hello, > > Am Sonntag, 23. Februar 2003 16:23 schrieb Joachim

Re: [sword-devel] i18n of sword website

2003-02-24 Thread Joachim Ansorg
Daniel, that's a very useful and good idea! For www.bibletime.info we have a online translation tool in place which offers the possibility to translate and edit the messages of the chosen language online. The data is stored in a aSQL database. In my opinion the online translation tool is very

[sword-devel] New to the List

2003-02-24 Thread Casey Cardwell
Hello All,   I'm completely new to the list and to the Sword project, but very interested in lending a hand.  Most everything following is introduction from me to you, and can be skipped if you're not interested.    I'm a senior in the Software Engineering major at the Oregon Institute of

Re: [sword-devel] Web Interface

2003-02-24 Thread Don A. Elbourne Jr.
Troy, Yes we can put more information in there. I just tested with my two browsers and Mozilla crops the text at character 87. IE is much more generous and does not crop it until character 807. But if we want to put the entire strongs definition in there, I think we could probably come up with a b

Re: Standards (was: Re: [sword-devel] Web Interface)

2003-02-24 Thread Don A. Elbourne Jr.
Troy, I do not want to be a trouble maker, but was that a "yes" or a "no" to using valid markup (X)HTML according to W3c web standards? If yes, what DOCTYPE? The only reason I ask is for consistency in development. May I suggest structural XHTML 1.0 Transitional. As the New York Public Library onl

Re: [sword-devel] Web Interface

2003-02-24 Thread YTang0648
In a message dated 2/24/2003 11:31:06 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My point was just that this site: http://www.glreach.com/globstats/ only shows statistics for "native speakers" which I had interpreted as meaning "mother tongue speakers".  I'm not completely clear, from th

Re: [sword-devel] Web Interface

2003-02-24 Thread YTang0648
In a message dated 2/24/2003 11:49:49 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And please: If you want to use _javascript_ it is your choice, but please make the website usable for users who have disabled all dynamic functions in their browsers (like Java, _javascript_, plugins, Activ

Re: [sword-devel] New to the List

2003-02-24 Thread YTang0648
cardwelc: Thanks for your intro. Maybe I should also post my bio somewhere :)

Re: [sword-devel] Web Interface

2003-02-24 Thread Chris Little
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (21) Chinese. There are 56.6 M people online in mainland China, according to > a report released by the ... > > I believe the 2.26M people in Singapore online, 5.7 M Malaysians online, and > 1.9 M Americans whoc access the Internet in Chinese a