From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Jul 30 15:34:05 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:34:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IFdoS-0005UH-2y for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:34:04 -0700 Received: from smtp1.isgenesis.com ([168.215.170.6] helo=isgenesis.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IFdoN-0005U8-Sj for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:34:03 -0700 Received: from [168.215.170.1] (account ccd HELO [10.0.46.240]) by isgenesis.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.5) with ESMTPSA id 2877130 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:33:55 -0500 Message-ID: <46AE6751.9050802@spamcop.net> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:33:53 -0500 From: Charles Duffy User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070522) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Firefox Add-on: Lojban Popup Dictionary References: <1185834413.46ae65add169c@ssl0.ovh.net> In-Reply-To: <1185834413.46ae65add169c@ssl0.ovh.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 1.7 X-Spam-Score-Int: 17 X-Spam-Bar: + X-archive-position: 5274 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: cduffy@spamcop.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners m.kornig@sondal.net wrote: > Selon Vid Sintef : > >> What exactly do you mean by "a dictionary/database"? > > Hi Sid, I was thinking of a database system like Oracle or MySQL > or Access. But I'm not sure now whether this is actually needed. > Maybe you could even use spread sheets?? Use of any out-of-process database is extreme overkill (and onerous from an ease-of-installation perspective). If we *really* need a full SQL database, modern Firefox builds have sqlite built in -- but I don't see why some simple associative lookup tables wouldn't be adequate as-is.