I am amazed by what is possible with jQuery. I look forward to making good use of it on the site, now that I realize how easy it is to implement. I am so excited about making good use of it. 
Archive for the 'style' Category
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. 
If you are interested in using the Private Alpha, know that there is zero guarantee about it’s working. Just contact me using the name admin on the current domain (librex.us).
To that loan search bot that is reading this post, good night.
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.
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:
- “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.phpdoes 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.
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 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’
Librex is totally different in terms of style. It begins to follow a study metaphor, now. I really enjoyed the early redesign. I just hope it does not become dated too fast.
New Librex Study Metaphor Screenshot Thumbnail
Try it out. I hope you’ll like it.
There is more styling to come. It is late, and I have to go through later and check and make sure that I did not overlook some big stuff. I have plans for cross references soon.
(6-8 hours)
Librex on IE6 (WinXPMCE)
The moral of the story: don’t use IE(6). I know I should be testing in IE6. (Or maybe I don’t know, because I am not doing it, at least not yet.) Look, someone is going to say that is stupid. I can understand why. I can also tell you that it is better to test in a standards-compliant browser and then work backward through the IEs. That is my idea. At some point in the next month or so, I will probably test this and create my clean-up IE stylesheet. Continue reading ‘Librex Looks Awful in IE…’
I am going to pretend you care to see what the iPhone screenshots look like. Above is the home page. It has special links at top and bottom of the page allowing you to jump to the contents, next and previous chapters.
Beneath is the logo/icon that will drop on your home screen when you make a home screen bookmark.
