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This is the least supported of the letter locale flags, * so gives us an easy test for full support. * * To test for support, we try to render it, and compare the rendering to how it would look if * the browser doesn't render it correctly ([U] + [N]). */ isIdentical = emojiSetsRenderIdentically( context, '\uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDF3', // as the sequence of two code points '\uD83C\uDDFA\u200B\uD83C\uDDF3' // as the two code points separated by a zero-width space ); if ( isIdentical ) { return false; } /* * Test for English flag compatibility. England is a country in the United Kingdom, it * does not have a two letter locale code but rather a five letter sub-division code. * * To test for support, we try to render it, and compare the rendering to how it would look if * the browser doesn't render it correctly (black flag emoji + [G] + [B] + [E] + [N] + [G]). */ isIdentical = emojiSetsRenderIdentically( context, // as the flag sequence '\uD83C\uDFF4\uDB40\uDC67\uDB40\uDC62\uDB40\uDC65\uDB40\uDC6E\uDB40\uDC67\uDB40\uDC7F', // with each code point separated by a zero-width space '\uD83C\uDFF4\u200B\uDB40\uDC67\u200B\uDB40\uDC62\u200B\uDB40\uDC65\u200B\uDB40\uDC6E\u200B\uDB40\uDC67\u200B\uDB40\uDC7F' ); return ! isIdentical; case 'emoji': /* * Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie. * * To test for Emoji 15.0 support, try to render a new emoji: Blackbird. * * The Blackbird is a ZWJ sequence combining 🐦 Bird and ⬛ large black square., * * 0x1F426 (\uD83D\uDC26) == Bird * 0x200D == Zero-Width Joiner (ZWJ) that links the code points for the new emoji or * 0x200B == Zero-Width Space (ZWS) that is rendered for clients not supporting the new emoji. * 0x2B1B == Large Black Square * * When updating this test for future Emoji releases, ensure that individual emoji that make up the * sequence come from older emoji standards. */ isIdentical = emojiSetsRenderIdentically( context, '\uD83D\uDC26\u200D\u2B1B', // as the zero-width joiner sequence '\uD83D\uDC26\u200B\u2B1B' // separated by a zero-width space ); return ! isIdentical; } return false; } /** * Checks emoji support tests. * * This function may be serialized to run in a Worker. 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href="http://prototypes.openscriptures.org/reference-parser-test.php">Reference Parser</a></li> <li><a href="http://prototypes.openscriptures.org/work-viewer/">Work Viewer</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </nav> <article id="content"> <header><h2>About the Project</h2></header> <footer> <time class='published' datetime="2009-03-01T17:30:01-08:00">March 1st, 2009</time> by <a href="http://weston.ruter.net/" title="Visit Weston Ruter’s website" rel="author external">Weston Ruter</a>. Updated <time class='updated' datetime="2012-05-29T21:37:02-08:00">May 29th, 2012</time> </footer> <p><strong>Update 2:</strong> Watch <a title="Multimedia of Presentation at BibleTech:2010" href="https://openscriptures.org/blog/2010/04/multimedia-from-bibletech2010/">presentation from BibleTech:2010</a> (below).</p> <p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="425" height="319" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10490211&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="319" src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10490211&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></p> <p><strong>Update:</strong> Watch <a title="Multimedia of Presentation at BibleTech:2009" href="https://openscriptures.org/2009/04/multimedia-of-presentation-at-bibletech2009/">presentation from BibleTech:2009</a> (below).</p> <p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="425" height="319" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="data" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3935864&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="never" /><param name="src" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3935864&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="319" src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3935864&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3935864&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1"></embed></object></p> <p><em><strong>Note:</strong> The following writeup needs to be updated.</em></p> <p>Open Scriptures seeks to be a comprehensive open-source Web repository for integrated scriptural data and a general application framework for building internationalized social applications of scripture. An abundance of scriptural resources are now available online—manuscripts, translations, and annotations are all being made available by students and scholars alike at an ever-increasing rate. These diverse scriptural resources, however, are isolated from each other and fragmented across the Internet. Thus mashing up the available data into new scriptural applications is not currently possible for the community at large because the resources’ interrelationships are not systematically documented. Open Scriptures aims to establish a scriptural database for interlinked textual resources such as merged manuscripts, the differences among them, and the links between their semantic units and the semantic units of their translations. With such a foundation in place, derived scriptural data like cross-references may be stored in a translation-neutral and internationalized manner so as to be accessible to the community no matter what language they speak or version they prefer.</p> <p><strong>Open Scriptures is all about <a title="Linked Data @ Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data">Linked Data</a> for scripture.</strong> Please watch <a title="Tim Berners-Lee @ Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee" target="_blank">Tim Berners-Lee</a>‘s TED talk on “<a title="Tim Berners-Lee: The next Web of open, linked data @ TED" href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html" target="_blank">The next Web of open, linked data</a>.” As <a href="http://www.zhubert.com/" target="_blank">Zack Hubert</a> <a title="Zack Hubert: "Open Source Bible Software: The Re:Greek Transition" @ BibleTech:2008" href="http://bibletechconference.com/speakers.htm#ZackHubert-2008" target="_blank">said</a> at the BibleTech:2008, “It’s a community effort. Any time anything good happens, is because a real cool team of people have come together around an idea.” Open Scriptures seeks to be such a community effort.</p> <p>Learn more:</p> <ul> <li><strong><a title="Multimedia of Presentation at BibleTech:2009" href="https://openscriptures.org/2009/04/multimedia-of-presentation-at-bibletech2009/">presentation at BibleTech:2009</a></strong> available in video, audio, and slides</li> <li>the <a href="https://openscriptures.org/2009/03/initial-project-writeup/">initial project writeup</a>, written in October 2008</li> <li>“<a href="https://openscriptures.org/2009/03/redeeming-the-ill-fated-regreek-project-a-call-for-participation/">Redeeming the Ill-fated Re:Greek Project: a Call for Participation</a>,” for some historical background</li> <li>“<a title=""The Open Scriptures Project" @ Nerdlets" href="http://nerdlets.org/2009/03/02/the-open-scriptures-project/" target="_blank">The Open Scriptures Project</a>,” a writeup on <a title="Nerdlets" href="http://nerdlets.org/" target="_blank">Nerdlets</a></li> </ul> <p>See the <a href="/schemagraph.svg">schemagraph of the database</a> for a view into what’s going on. The source code is available on <a href="http://code.google.com/p/open-scriptures/">Google Code</a>. Join the <a title="Open Scriptures Google Group" href="http://groups.google.com/group/open-scriptures">discussion group</a>, and follow us on <a title="Open Scriptures Twitter Feed" href="http://twitter.com/openscriptures">Twitter</a>.</p> <p>All code in the Open Scriptures project is released under the <a rel="license" href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GPL 3.0 license</a>, and all content is licensed <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0</a>.</p> <section id="comments"> <h3>Comments</h3> <ol> <li id="comment-1128" class="comment"><section> <address><a href="http://www.biblefocus.net" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow" target='_blank' title="Visit commenter's website"><img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ac0630e643c14a5eac88498f26751a6f?s=80&d=mm&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ac0630e643c14a5eac88498f26751a6f?s=160&d=mm&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-80 photo' height='80' width='80' decoding='async'/>jan</a> </address> <footer> <a href="#comment-1128" rel="permalink" title="Permalink to this comment"><time datetime="2009-06-05T22:26:04-08:00">June 5th, 2009 at 10:26 pm</time></a> </footer> <p>I have been using your text comparitor! WOW and thanks, for that represents work. Previously my best was comparing a diaglott and the nestle Greek text! Loved it! loved how it worked… the highlighting and the hover tool- all excellent. I did a word study of the use of the word holy! The truth makes us free.</p> </section> </li> <li id="comment-13228" class="comment alt"><section> <address><a href="http://www.biblenotes.info" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow" target='_blank' title="Visit commenter's website"><img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1f22f2120f1e70ff92d67b57a6d027b6?s=80&d=mm&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1f22f2120f1e70ff92d67b57a6d027b6?s=160&d=mm&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-80 photo' height='80' width='80' decoding='async'/>Sergey Sologuba</a> </address> <footer> <a href="#comment-13228" rel="permalink" title="Permalink to this comment"><time datetime="2011-03-05T10:50:12-08:00">March 5th, 2011 at 10:50 am</time></a> </footer> <p>Dear OpenScriptures team! My name is Sergey Sologub – i’m a pastor from Ukraine. Year ago God lied on my heart the idea of Open Bbible commentary for youth – that every person can meditate on Scripture and write down his own meditation by one click. I just launched the russian version – <a href="http://www.zametki.info" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.zametki.info</a> and also have plans to launch an English version. Just found your vebsite and enjoy all you do for spreading Bible online.</p> <p>Sergey</p> </section> </li> <li id="comment-18615" class="comment"><section> <address><img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3450b717856e416d5b6b536f3401c70?s=80&d=mm&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3450b717856e416d5b6b536f3401c70?s=160&d=mm&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-80 photo' height='80' width='80' decoding='async'/>Caspar </address> <footer> <a href="#comment-18615" rel="permalink" title="Permalink to this comment"><time datetime="2011-09-03T02:35:23-08:00">September 3rd, 2011 at 2:35 am</time></a> </footer> <p>Dear Openscriptures,<br /> I really like your Manuscript Comparator. I have some ideas how you could maybe make the Manuscript Comparator even better. Could you please display each verse in a new line. Could you please add an English interlinear translation under the Greek text, for people who don’t know any Greek, could you please add the Old Testament to your Manuscript Comparator.</p> <p>God bless you<br /> Caspar<br /> Germany</p> </section> </li> </ol> <p>Subscribe to the <a href="https://openscriptures.org/about/feed/">comments feed</a>.</p> </section> </article> <footer> <p> Code open source under <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html" rel="license">GPL 3</a>. Content licensed <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0</a>. 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