Comments on: An Interesting Challenge http://www.bsreview.org/blog/2008/07/an-interesting-challenge.html News, articles, and reviews of Bible software Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:05:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: karl kleinpaste http://www.bsreview.org/blog/2008/07/an-interesting-challenge.html#comment-142 karl kleinpaste Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:25:09 +0000 http://www.bsreview.org/blog/?p=1109#comment-142 ...there is no such thing in Bible software as a “one fits all” package. It’s like a suit. We all have different needs, tastes and sizes... That's very much the Sword Project perspective: Sword is a common software base on top of which to build any UI someone wants. The differences in desired user experience and workflow lead to very different ideas about window layout and tool availability and behavior. The need for cross-platform compatibility adds to this, in that the expectations of any Windows program are rather different from Linux or MacOS. …there is no such thing in Bible software as a “one fits all” package.
It’s like a suit. We all have different needs, tastes and sizes…

That’s very much the Sword Project perspective: Sword is a common software base on top of which to build any UI someone wants. The differences in desired user experience and workflow lead to very different ideas about window layout and tool availability and behavior. The need for cross-platform compatibility adds to this, in that the expectations of any Windows program are rather different from Linux or MacOS.

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