Re: [lojban] Speaking of popups...

[Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>]

vruxir, you're my hero. Well done. I'm always excited about Lojban
software tools.

-Eppcott

On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 6:01 AM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why use a local dictionary instead of linking to jbovlaste, may I ask?
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> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 10:05 PM, vruxir <kextrii@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Firefox users, today's your lucky day. I think I've heard people ask for a
>> browser popup extension before... So I made one. It's called Lojban Popup:
>>
>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lojban-popup/
>>
>> (Just published, so it's not in the search results yet.)
>>
>> 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, dots, commas, and punctuation in order to maximize useful
>> matches (ignoring spaces isn't ideal, but better to catch extras than to
>> miss something).
>>
>> The popups match on words (gismu, cmavo, cmene, lujvo, fu'ivla, etc.) or
>> rafsi.
>>
>> You can right click and bring up a dictionary browser by which you can
>> search the local dictionary by word, rafsi, or selma'o (search in all caps
>> to match selma'o; otherwise, the search is case-insensitive).
>>
>> The local dictionary is up to date as of May 24, 2012. My main concern in
>> terms of upkeep (other than serious bug fixes) is updating the dictionary
>> file, since I had to do a lot of tweaking to set it up. (In other words,
>> grumble grumble don't ask for frequent updates :)
>>
>> Take it for a spin, let me know if there are serious problems, and TRY not
>> to become overdependent and get tunnel vision :)
>>
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