SQABD Lightning Talks 4 www.sqabd.com

1. From Big-Bang to Area51

2. 2001, we created a VBA based project to let
you type phonetically, in Microsoft Word
We used inter-process communication to
protect our intelligent property
We sold it for 300K BDT ☺

3. Bijoy
Probartan
Alpona
Proshika
Avro
SCIM based solutions
You need to install them in your machine!

4. They are open source and cost nothing at all
Easy to integrate in your web apps
Visitors can type in Bangla Instantly in their
favorite method without installing
ANYTHING!

5. Bangla Dictionary and Bangla Emailer
Ascii Based
GD and Freetype used for Rendering Bangla
texts
Mainly Internet Explorer based

6. Introduced an improved version of Unijoy
Still ascii based, used WEFT to embed the
font
Internet Explorer, Opera and Firefox
compatible.

7. The year of phonetic
You type Amar Desh BanglaDesh
You see
Unfortunately, Still Ascii

8. We converted all input scripts (phonetic and
unijoy) to unicode version
Released under LGPL
Now you can embed these scripts anywhere,
anytime…

9. ASCII
,
wK Lei fvwMbv, AvQ ‡Kgb?
Unicode
,
,

10. Four input methods (Unijoy, Phonetic,
Inscript and Probhat)
Sized from 11-14 KB
Redundant helper routines
Complex event management
Hard to extend or fix a bug

11. Works very good ☺

12. <input type=‘text’ id=‘bangla’/>
<script src=‘phonetic.js’></script>
<script type=‘text/javascript’>
▪ makePhoneticEditor('bangla');
▪ //element id
</script>

13. Everything is managed by a central input
manager
All input processor (drivers) are working as
adapter
Event is managed by IM
IM invokes the driver callback routine for
special key-processing
Renders the output

14. InputManager is now only 5 KB
Phonetic Driver is 3.5 KB, Unijoy is 2.5 KB,
Probhat is also 2.5 KB
And that’s without any compression!

15. <input type=‘text’ class=‘bangla’/>
<script src=‘jquery.js’></script>
<script src=‘bim.js’></script>
<script src=‘driver.phonetic.js’></script>
<script type=‘text/javascript’>
$(".bangla").bnKb()
</script>

16. <script type=‘text/javascript’>
$(".bangla").bnKb(
'switchkey': 'y',
'driver': phonetic
)
</script>

17. Robust, Lightweight and Cross browser
compatible
Smart event management
Huge community
Excellent plugin architecture

18. Almost all major bangla blogging platform
Newspapers
Individual Wordpress users
Almost all major bangla forums

19. Virtual
Keyboard
Firefox
Extension
TinyMCE
Plugin

20. Hasin Hayder
Omi Azad
Manchu Mahara (A.K.A Sabuj Kundu)
Ekushey.org

21. You have 5-10 minutes!! – lets rock-n-roll