[sword-devel] sword.js  Greg Hellings greg.hellings at gmail.com
Mon Jul 8 14:06:26 MST 2013  On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 3:56 PM,
Ryan Hiebert <ryan at ryanhiebert.com> wrote:  > Have you looked
at untar.js? > https://code.google.com/p/bitjs/source/browse/unt
ar.js?r=0eca1f06d91e1477e3708531939c8071fc877855 > On a
tangentially-related note, I've done some work on a python sword
> zmodule reader. It's stalled a bit now, because I've seen >
recommendations to use the C++ libraries, and just bindings to
other > languages. I understand the desire, but I think that
Javascript is a > good example of why that's not acceptable in
all cases. For some > distribution methods, it may be necessary
to have everything > implemented in a particular scripting
language, such as for a > Client-side Javascript bible reader. >
I think that encouraging using the C++ library is good, but it's
even > more important to make sure that the file formats are
well documented, > to allow alternate implementations if they
are necessary.  Since w