Re: [sword-devel] JavaScript & SWORD modules

2014-01-19 Thread Stephan
Hi Greg, My purpose was to strip away that layer and just show that there is not a need, from the desires I have seen on this list so far, for a pure JavaScript implementation. Not that it can't be done or that people will fight you on it if you really want to put in that level of effort. I only

Re: [sword-devel] JavaScript & SWORD modules

2014-01-19 Thread Greg Hellings
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Matej Cepl wrote: > 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, thi

Re: [sword-devel] JavaScript & SWORD modules

2014-01-19 Thread Greg Hellings
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Stephan wrote: > Hi, > > ...very immature or focused heavily on pure JS work that producing Sword >> >> bindings ranges from impossible (in the browser) to questionable >> (browser plugins) to an unexplored unknown (server-side plugins). >> > > Last year I've sta

Re: [sword-devel] JavaScript & SWORD modules

2014-01-19 Thread Matej Cepl
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 qui

Re: [sword-devel] JavaScript & SWORD modules

2014-01-19 Thread Stephan
Hi, ...very immature or focused heavily on pure JS work that producing Sword bindings ranges from impossible (in the browser) to questionable (browser plugins) to an unexplored unknown (server-side plugins). Last year I've started serveral efforts to access SWORD modules in Javascript. Since

Re: [sword-devel] JavaScript & SWORD modules

2014-01-19 Thread DM Smith
Awesome!! On Jan 19, 2014, at 2:57 PM, Greg Hellings wrote: > There has been much discussion of late about accessing Sword through > JavaScript, producing JavaScript bindings for Sword, or porting Sword into > JavaScript. JS provides a unique challenge because it is so heavily dominated > by

[sword-devel] JavaScript & SWORD modules

2014-01-19 Thread Greg Hellings
There has been much discussion of late about accessing Sword through JavaScript, producing JavaScript bindings for Sword, or porting Sword into JavaScript. JS provides a unique challenge because it is so heavily dominated by browser-side work and most server-side solutions are either very immature