KitaDic

33913 KitaDic 33527 2010-01-12T03:12:55Z http://kita.springnote.com/pages/33913 2007-04-02T06:00:59Z    <img class="attachment" title="KitaDic.PNG" src="/pages/33913/attachments/13961" alt="KitaDic.PNG" /> Mouse Dictionary Extension for Firefox Browser <img class="attachment" title="kita.png" src="/pages/33913/attachments/45485" alt="kita.png" /> Initial version released in 2006, latest version in Jan 2010, and currently updating.     "KitaDic" is an English-English dictionary extension for Firefox. After searching for an 'extremely easy to use' dictionary extension, I created KitaDic by forking Backword extension.   <h4 id="tocKitaDic1">How-to-use</h4> After installing KitaDic extension, place your mouse pointer over a word of your interest and hold CTRL key for 1 second. KitaDic will fetch the meaning of the word from free-of-charge Wiktionary.org and show it in a 'Post-it' shape window. Click anywhere outside of the definition window to close it.   <h4>Screenshots</h4> <img class="attachment" title="KitaDic_Preview.png" src="/pages/33913/attachments/45430" alt="KitaDic_Preview.png" /> Mouse pointer placed over "Preview" word.   <img class="attachment" title="KitaDic_toggle.png" src="/pages/33913/attachments/45452" alt="KitaDic_toggle.png" /> You can activate/deactivate KitaDic by clicking KitaDic icon(human face) on the lower right corner of Firefox.     <h4 id="tocKitaDic3">Little more detail about KitaDic's behavior</h4> <ul> <li>Top 100+ basic words will be ignored.</li> <li>Words inside TEXTAREA, INPUT,SELECT tags will be ignored.</li> <li>Definition window provides external links to the definitions in Wikipedia, Naver (English-Korean), Daum (Eng-Korean) and Answers.com. Those links will be opened in a new tab.</li> <li>KitaDic will guess the stem of the word.</li> <li>You can keep looking-up words inside definition window by placing your mouse pointer on them.</li> <li>The definition window will be closed when you click outside of it.</li> </ul>   <h4 id="tocKitaDic4">Download</h4> Official download: <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4800" class="external" title="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4800">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4800</a>   <h4 id="tocKitaDic5">History</h4> <ul> <li> <a href="/pages/33913/attachments/2805525" title="kitadic_0.3.026.xpi" class="attachment">kitadic_0.3.026.xpi</a> / 2010.01.10 (public version) <ul> <li>When you follow words inside the KitaDic window, the window location will not be changed.</li> </ul> </li> <li> kitadic_0.3.25 / 2009.12.16 <ul> <li>Removed setTimeout function to pass AddOn validator</li> <li>Removed non-essential sections in the definition</li> <li>Added DL, DD styles</li> <li>Adjusted window size</li> </ul> </li> <li> kitadic_0.3.24 / 2009.12.11 <ul> <li> Changed Wiktionay parser</li> <li>Better style</li> <li>Added Google Dictionary Eng-Kor link</li> <li>Removed stem word guessing feature</li> </ul> </li> <li> <a href="/pages/33913/attachments/1828543" class="attachment" title="kitadic_0.3.023b.xpi">kitadic_0.3.023b.xpi</a> / 2009.7.1 <ul> <li>Using CTRL key is now default</li> <li>Fixed text color (which has been affected by the document CSS)</li> <li>Added CSS insertion method for more stable display</li> <li>Fixed handling 404-not-found error response from Wiktionary.org</li> <li>Prepositions are displayed correctly</li> <li>Removed scroll event monitoring</li> <li>Changed font size</li> <li>Changed box shape to round-cornered</li> <li>Fixed persistant window bug when KitaDic is disabled</li> </ul> </li> <li> <a href="/pages/33913/attachments/710692" class="attachment" title="kitadic_0.3.020b.xpi">kitadic_0.3.020b.xpi</a> / 2008.8.14 <ul> <li>Works with Firefox 3.0.*</li> </ul> </li> <li> <a href="/pages/33913/attachments/45427" class="attachment" title="kitadic_0.3.018b.xpi">kitadic_0.3.018b.xpi</a> / 2007.4.13 <ul> <li>Activation/deactivation icon added.</li> <li>Save KitaDic activation status in preferences.</li> <li>Ignore words in SELECT tag.</li> <li>Cancel fetching if user scrolls.</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul> <li> 0.3.017b <ul> <li>Code refactoring: more stability (less conflict with Gmail)</li> <li>Improved the mechanism of parsing Wiktionary.com's content.</li> <li>Modified the style of definition window (bigger font).</li> <li>Ignores numbers.</li> <li>Cancels fetching if mouse pointer moves</li> <li>Fetching delay is changed to 2 seconds.</li> <li>Ignores words in TEXTAREA, INPUT tags.</li> </ul>   </li> <li> 0.3.013a <ul> <li>Initial release.</li> </ul>   </li> </ul>   <h4 id="tocKitaDic6">Known problems</h4> <ul> <li>Please inform me.</li> </ul> <h4 id="tocKitaDic7">How to change KitaDic behavior settings (no user interface yet)</h4> Currently, KitaDic doesn't have a user interface for setting user preferences. However, KitaDic provides an option that users can change via Firefox's interval config interface. After changing values, restart Firefox to make new values effective.   <ul> <li> Type about:config in Firefox's address bar and search the following items: <ul> <li>extensions.kitadic.wordmondelay : affects how many miliseconds the extension should wait for before fetching the word. Unit is miliseconds (1/1000 sec), and default value is 1500. This option is affective only when extensions.kitadic.usectrlkey is false.</li> <li>extensions.kitadic.usectrlkey : [true | false] set to true to use CTRL key (holding 1 second) for fetching.</li> <li>extensions.kitadic.enabled : [true | false] KitaDic is activated if it is set to true</li> </ul>   </li> </ul>   <h4 id="tocKitaDic8">To-do</h4> <ul> <li>basicwordblock preference</li> <li>Preference window</li> <li>Fetching Google Dictionary too</li> <li>DICT protocol...</li> </ul>   <h4 id="tocKitaDic9">Contact</h4> kitaru [@ no-spam] gmail [. no-spam] com     http://kitaru.myid.net/ http://kitaru.myid.net/ 213