[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban Popup Dictionary for Firefox (exists now)

[Álvaro Vallejo <avallejor@gmail.com>]

Thanks for this initiative.

I installed the extension but nothing happens. How can I activate it?

mu'o mi'e la albaros.

On May 29, 1:14 pm, vruxir <kext...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I should have cross-posted this before (already posted in the "lojban"
> group).
>
> I just made an add-on for Firefox called Lojban Popup:
>
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lojban-popup/
>
> (Still waiting for Mozilla's preliminary review, so it's not in the search
> results yet -- but you can still install it.)
>
> It's based on the code for Mandarin Popup, my favorite popup add-on for
> Firefox, and has more or less the same functionality. When you hover over
> text, it pulls up possible matches from a JSON-ized local copy of
> jbovlaste. It ignores spaces (with some exceptions), dots, commas, and
> capitalization in order to maximize useful matches (ignoring spaces isn't
> ideal, but better to catch extras than to miss something pe'i).
>
> The popups match on words (gismu, cmavo, cmene, lujvo, fu'ivla, etc.) or
> rafsi, plus whatever cmavo clusters are defined in jbovlaste.
>
> You can right click and bring up a dictionary browser by which you can
> search the local dictionary by word, rafsi, definition, notes, or selma'o
> (search in all caps to match selma'o; otherwise, the search is
> case-insensitive). Also in the right click menu is an option to
> disable/reenable the popups.
>
> The local dictionary file is up to date as of May 24, 2012.
>
> Take it for a spin, let me know if there are serious problems, and TRY not
> to become overdependent and get tunnel vision :)
>
> Fan club mail goes to aionys.

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