One feature of BibleDesktop that I hope you retain is the method of
displaying cross-references. It is natural to have them in a pane on the
left-hand side of the screen because that mimics the approach of most
print Bibles. It also offers additional content across languages. When I
was working at Crossway I checked the cross-references in the ESV from
Genesis to Jeremiah--they are very good. So I like to use them for my
own study, and when I work in Vietnamese I like to have those
cross-references. BibleDesktop, combining its display of
cross-references with the parallel text display, thus extends the
content of one Bible to another.
Another thought, related to the browser-like features you are
suggesting, is that it would be good to have a tabbed interface so you
can have multiple workspaces at once. Just a thought.
Daniel
On 4/22/2010 4:38 PM, Chris Burrell wrote:
Just thought I'd share a few sites that have cropped up recently from
various people in the listings and outside. If we could pull ideas off
those interfaces, I think we could end up with something really good.
1- http://my.offlinebible.com/index.php
2- http://code.google.com/p/xulsword/
3- http://www.bibleglo.com/
We will probably need to rewrite the current interface completely, so
we might as well be creative. The timeline will probably stay the same
for now, but maybe in future versions get replaced or have several
versions of it, etc. Everything else will probably go.
A few thoughts in terms of our thinking:
- adopting the MVP pattern and EventBus, we want to be able to build
and replace parts of the interface without affecting the rest of the
application
- we need something that feels like a application running locally - in
some cases it will - (in terms of speed, the idea that we're not going
from page to page, etc.)
- people know how to use websites, so we want to tap in to that
(browser back and forward button, search box, event model, etc.)
- something easy to use
- something clean, but easy to find all the other data.
- something consistent so that as we put new data into it the user is
not forced to look for all the new data, but that it's presented to
him and yet not overwhelming him
Any thoughts, any takers?
Chris
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