Wasn't sure where this thread should go, so I put it here in the lobby and will let the moderators decide if it can stay, or if it should be moved somewhere more approriate.
So apparently the fine folks over at bible.org have had this nifty little tool available since at least 2009, without me knowing. What it basically does is that it recognizes whenever there is a reference to a bible verse or passage (e.g. John 3:16, or Col 2:1-5) on a webpage and turns all such references into hyperlinks, which when hovered over creates a "tooltip" window containing the text of the passage in question (Using the NET translation).
Based on the instructions (link below) it doesn't seem like it would be at all difficult to get it working site-wide on Theologyweb, and I hope the owners decide to implement it, but even if they decide against it anyone who is interested in the functionality can use it on almost any site, regardless of whether the owners of the site has added the functionality, simply by dragging the link they provide in the instructions I'm linking below to their bookmark bar. (I would post the actual link here, but the [URL]-tags seem to do funny things with javascript bookmarklets, making them unusable).
Now whenever you see someone post a scripture reference here on TWeb (or on any other site/forum) without citing the actual text you can just click on the bookmark you added, and it should automatically convert the reference into a hoverable hyperlink that brings up the actual text of the reference, as long as the text is properly formatted. The downside of the bookmarklet approach is that you need to click on the bookmark whenever you go to a new page on the site, or whenever you refresh the current page, an issue that wouldn't exist if the owners decided to implement the feature into the site itself ().
In any case, I'll leave the link to instructions on how to use the NETBibleTagger (instructions on how to use it as a bookmarklet is also in there) below:
https://labs.bible.org/NETBibleTagger/
So apparently the fine folks over at bible.org have had this nifty little tool available since at least 2009, without me knowing. What it basically does is that it recognizes whenever there is a reference to a bible verse or passage (e.g. John 3:16, or Col 2:1-5) on a webpage and turns all such references into hyperlinks, which when hovered over creates a "tooltip" window containing the text of the passage in question (Using the NET translation).
Based on the instructions (link below) it doesn't seem like it would be at all difficult to get it working site-wide on Theologyweb, and I hope the owners decide to implement it, but even if they decide against it anyone who is interested in the functionality can use it on almost any site, regardless of whether the owners of the site has added the functionality, simply by dragging the link they provide in the instructions I'm linking below to their bookmark bar. (I would post the actual link here, but the [URL]-tags seem to do funny things with javascript bookmarklets, making them unusable).
Now whenever you see someone post a scripture reference here on TWeb (or on any other site/forum) without citing the actual text you can just click on the bookmark you added, and it should automatically convert the reference into a hoverable hyperlink that brings up the actual text of the reference, as long as the text is properly formatted. The downside of the bookmarklet approach is that you need to click on the bookmark whenever you go to a new page on the site, or whenever you refresh the current page, an issue that wouldn't exist if the owners decided to implement the feature into the site itself ().
In any case, I'll leave the link to instructions on how to use the NETBibleTagger (instructions on how to use it as a bookmarklet is also in there) below:
https://labs.bible.org/NETBibleTagger/
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