If you are watching the Private Alpha, I have updated the style, and finally posted the confessions (Keach’s Catechism and the 1689 London Baptist Confession). I have a lot in the hopper of my brain, and no idea what the time frame is for implementation. I had something called verse wrappers coming up, and I thought I was on the verge of completion, and the more I worked on it, the worse it got. 
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Ryle has earmarks. I am excited!
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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:
- prefered version of Bible (and Psalter?)
- verse wrappers: <?=”Genesis 1.1″?> or <?=”Gen 1:1-12″?> will turn out the verse and link more easily with preferred version support
- psalm-singing helps: recommended tunes, available tunes, etc.: this may require SQL/DB before implementation.
- earmarking at paragraph and verse level (one before the para, and one after the verse) allowing use in works like the Geneva Notes which have multiple, or no notes per verse, etc.
- Support for earmarking in the Psalters
There are no guarantees here. But I hope to have the Ryle thing done soon.
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:
- “Contents:” links return null for the link text in IE6.
- The bookmark does not display correctly in IE6, still showing the background image at this point.
- The outbound link disclaimer/landing page works on site links in IE6.
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):
- Dog Ears are much nicer, but have not been implemented throughout. They tell you the book, chapter and verse in a more human-friendly way, e.g. “Gen 1.3″. But they do not work well in books that are not related to the Bible directly.
- I have lots of simple clean-up to do on books:
- educating quotes and apostrophes (all books)
- spelling (non-Bible)
- grammar (non-Bible)
- I still need to build previous and next chapter navigation in non-Bible books.
- I need a standardized naming convention for non-Bible books.
- I also need to put heading for Aleph, Beth, Gamel, etc. in Psalm 119 for easier navigation and reading (particularly in the two psalters).
- I also need to build a better index for the Bay Psalm Book.
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.)
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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 know there are a couple of you out there that I have been talking to directly (Lisa, Sarah and Joe) about this project. I would like you to use this space to give me some feedback, and request features that you would like to see in upcoming development cycles.
Even if you have not spoken to me about this, I would love to hear what you would like in this site, how it could be better, and what features lack, or could be dropped.
I am not making any guarantees about implementation or timeline. Though I would love to say, yes and right away. We will see what comes. I think I will be surprised by just how little really comes in. (Don’t laugh when you read this post in five years, and see that no one ever posted to it.)