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Make a quick search for a Bible verse on the most awesome Protestant biblegateway.com

License: BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License

JavaScript 87.29% HTML 10.23% CSS 2.48%

biblegateway protestant bible extension-firefox bible-verse search-engine

biblegatewayquick's Introduction

biblegatewayquick

Make a quick search for a Bible verse on the most awesome Protestant biblegateway.com. Official Firefox extension can be installed from here.

Choose your favorite transltaion

Quickly find a biblical reference

What's the idea

There already is a Firefox plugin to add biblegateway.com as a search engine, created by Narwhals Dermal, which is super cool. However the idea of this Firefox plugin is to allow you a quick, context menu search (i.e. when you right click a select text), getting a new tab opened to your bible verse at biblegateway.com, rather than changing your search engine.

Why Biblegateway.com

Because Protestants love the Bible, and biblegatway is super awesome, having translations that I love (and no, I have not read the entire bible, yet...) such as NET (New English Translation) that offer tons of explicative footnotes, explaining historical context, language subtleties and other things. Or NIV (New International Version) that is super easy to read and understand.

Licensing

In the past I've read the MIT license that I consider super short and useful. This time, I just wanted to make this software free and open source, with the Revised BSD license.

Appreciations

Thanks to:

aruljohn for providing the Protestant Canon list :)
Shlomi Fish (aka Rindolf) for providing text corrections (God knows I need help there)
jbust97 for improving user experience by implementing a feature which allows custom traslations to be used

Am I a duper pious person?

Not at all, in fact I haven't even read the whole Bible. Unfortunately, for some people this speaks mountains about me. I love things like South Park, and I am very sketip at times, having my own dark nights of the soul. But, I like to hope and think that by the grace of God, I am what I am (1 Corinthians 15:10), says St. Paul, echoed by the Protestant reformer Martin Luther.

I have a dream...

Maybe one day the Romanian Orthodox Church will collaborate with biblegateway.com and offer their "aproved" version for their faithful to have it for free (Protestants rock).

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biblegatewayquick's Issues

Add verse of the day support

When clicking the browser action button (extension button in toolbar area), the verse of the day from biblegateway.com should come up.

Fetch Bible citation text in backgroung

Currently, after selecting text, the extension decides if selection is a valid Bible reference or not and based on this enables/disables the context menu.
I would be much easier and faster for the user, if instead, we got fetch the text in background and later on display in int the same page, in small frame above the selection.

Verse of the day should be changed based on date and not day number

Currently in src/verseOfTheDay.js there is mechanism in place to check each time the verse of the day is request, if it has expired or not (i.e. if it's still the same day), this has been implemented by comparing day numbers (example Sunday = 1, Monday = 2), instead of whole dates (i.e. 23.05.2021).
This is a bug because if a user only uses the browser on, say, Sundays, the mechanism will conclude it's the same date, which is wrong, and not fetch a new verse of the day.

Verse of the day doesn't always reneder

In the verseOfTheDay branch, if you click the extension button a couple of times, you will notice verse of the day, doesn't always render.
It looks like the problem is in the load callback, where the XHR instance doesn't always have it's responseXML property.
Maybe trying to switch to a more modern API like fetch could solve the problem?

User input for translation of choice

Currently, there are several predefined translations the user can select.
A text input could be added, where the user input would override selection of predefined selection.

This also need to include validation, as to not allow malicious or wrong input

Allow user to choose bible version

Currently version is hard coded to NIV, a small html action button that displays a bible translation drop down could be written for users to select their favorite translation

Make extension available for chrome or make a chrome branch

Tons of people use Chromebooks, and the Chrome Engine is used not just on Google Chrome, but Chromium, Brave, Opera, Microsoft Edge, etc.
Not sure yet if the extension can be made to work on chrome engine as is, or a new branch needs be done.
Anyways, work in this area has already been made as the Firefox browser.menus API, has been replaced with chrome compatible contextMenus

beautify the HML with some CSS

Currently the toolbar (browser action as internally called), who's HTML code is stored in src/action, is very dull, with no CSS arrangement at all.
Maybe it can be made more pleasant to the eye via CSS? Any ideas/prototypes are welcomed.