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.)
(3-6 hours)
I added a new work this morning: J.C. Ryle’s Holiness. I will follow the web “mantra” with this one: iterate early and iterate often. I will try to make edits as I read along for my own edification.
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)
Poor alliterations are poetic asininity, but that’s not stopping me.
Anyway, this weekend saw the addition of some much needed hyperlinks (for contents, next, previous and page top) to the IE6 (Internet Explorer 6) standard interface.
It also saw the addition of Charles Hodge’s commentary on Romans.
(3+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.)
K2 is working again. I am happy to see that it is centered again. That is really all.
The Wordpress 2.7.1 broke my K2 theme. Bummer. It just does not look right (left-aligned now, instead of being centered), apparently all is well underneath. I’ll leave it alone, hoping that most people don’t have their chrome set to 1000px+ wide. 
Librex has a couple of updates (mostly visual): The London Confession is the best among them. I hope you enjoy.
(Hrs: 4-6ish)