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To my one dear reader,
I have been busy with school (and work). I plan on reading a book about (My)SQL before starting back up. I may also try to read a lot more and otherwise inform myself about JavaScript before I get back on this like I was. I imagine I may not really do much with this in the next month to three at that rate. I am sorry for the slowing, but my desire has in no way been diminished. Thank you for using Librex.
Sincerely,
David
I have changed a lot of what is out there. The look is substantially different. The way the earmarks work is pretty different. They look a lot alike, but they work in IE6/8 (and I presume IE7).
I removed the earmarking from many works until I can implement it better. I am bummed about the fact that I cannot earmark from Ryle’s Holiness any longer. I hope to fix that soon. I have grown some new ideas. And I have moved a WinXP/IE6 laptop in next to me so I can check my work periodically. I hope not to leave my IE6 users in the dark any longer, until such time as they drop significantly in the usage stats.
The navigation is changed a bit. The previous, next, contents, and page-level stuff is a bit different.
Next in the chute are the following:
There are no guarantees here. But I hope to have the Ryle thing done soon.
With some help I found a number of problems in IE and other places with asymmetric form implementation. So, I have changed the earmark system (formerly “Dog Ears”). I have pulled earmarks off of all but a few portions of the site, until I have time to ensure their performance. I grew this thing too fast, and have been embarassed by it for a couple of days now. I will try to implement the earmarks in more places in different degrees as the Lord allows.
Now that I have learned a thing or two about cookies, I am planning to eventually implement a Preferred Bible option. (That does not give you a lot of options: Geneva Bible and Authorized Version; it’s basically my way or the highway.) At some point in the future, if we are able to offer other older (TR) English Bibles, e.g. Coverdale, Wycliffe, Tyndale, etc., you will see that option open up. I don’t know how reasonable that is, but I would like to see it eventually.
I hope there will be more to come.
(8-16 hours—big gap, I know, I have not been recording my hours carefully: 4+ hours tonight, and the same last night)
I was at a friend’s house today. (I am thankful that he—Kevin—makes good use of the site.) I found out a number of problems with the site. While Dog Ears worked in IE6—and I seem to remember them working in IE7—they apparently don’t work in IE8. (I do know from experience that they work well in FF3/Mac, Safari 4/Mac, and Safari/iPhone.) In IE8, the cookie-handling file (/innards/php/cookie-monster.php) stalls, without pushing you back to the referring page. Here is a quick breakdown of problems that I have recently found:
cookie-monster.php does not work in IE8.There are still lots of things going on in development here on my own machine at home (and other things that I realize need to be updated or changed):
There is so much to do, and so little time. The Lord is gracious. He will provide what he is pleased to. And it will be excellent. Good night.
Thanks for the idea, Kevin and Chris. Thanks for the name, Sarah. “Dog ears” allow you to keep your place. It needs polish (the dog ear names are not entirely human friendly), and its implementation is partial: Ryle’s Holiness, The King James, Henry and Gill’s Commentaries, and Geneva Notes have it for now. I will work it in to others shortly, if the Lord allows. They are easy enough to set and easy to delete. They make devotional reading much easier, coming back to your place, etc. WOW! (They do require you to enable cookies.)
(3-6 hours)
Here are some features that I have recently added: print support, the Bay Psalm Book (now complete, though still in revision), a better index for Scottish Psalter, some tunes and a tune index.
BTW, librex is still in beta (though I would not say it means “bleeding-edge testing alpha” any longer), but I have removed it as a host name (i.e. beta.librex.us → librex.us).
(8-12 hours)
I have updated reformingworship.org. Now the main resources link over to Librex. I will eventually pull down the navigation. But for now, it is up with “instamatic” redirects.
(2.5+hours)
I will try here to synopsize the goals, documentation, implementation, purpose and intended audience of this (project—Librex—) in this post. This may help to keep expectations real, and focus the efforts of the coming months and years.
Continue reading ‘Crystallizing the Purpose and Plan of Librex’
I was able to accomplish more than I expected tonight. I did not finish the logic for pages, but I was able to clean and upload many pages. They really work. I have up three working bibles, some style changes, I have been able to polish the user interface a bit. I would be interested in your comments about the site, and what should change. Though there comes with that no promise of implementation.
(2-3+ hours)
A while back I built a site, called reformingworship.org. It is still in existance, and there is nothing particularly wrong with it. But there have been a lot of things that I have wanted to do to it. I need to link it better. I need to build it using a DB backend and MySQL. I need to find a way to easily build Bible links either on the fly or at least using regular expressions. I need to have file extensions that still work on personal computers when the files are downloaded and reused.
(2-3 hours)