The Holy Scripturizer

I saw on the ESV blog that the webmasters at Toongabbie have produced a sweet ajax-powered use of the ESV web service to dynamically update the sidebar of their blog when the user selects a Bible reference. The sidebar even displays the footnotes and formatting of the Scripture text. Impressive indeed!Are there any ajax/PHP developers out there who can help us make this sort of functionality a reality for Scripturizer?

Possible Gameplan

• Create a WordPress widget that functions as the updating sidebar location for the verse text.
• Update the core scripturizer code to include the ajax javascript and ESV web service queries.
• Add an option to the admin panel to enable the ajax sidebar feature.
• Consider how we can update the current technique of doing the ESV show/hide in a span tag. The current technique uses preformatted plain text and does not include footnotes, etc.

Would anyone even be interested in such functionality?

What say ye?

The latest stable release of the Scripturizer WordPress plugin is Scripturizer 1.5, which is available in the download area.

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