Lojban Popup Dictionary for Firefox (exists now)

[vruxir]

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.

[Jonathan Jones]

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:14 PM, vruxir <kex...@gmail.com> wrote:

Fan club mail goes to aionys.

What? This is a joke, right?

--
mu'o mi'e .aionys.

.i.e'ucai ko cmima lo pilno be denpa bu .i doi.luk. mi patfu do zo'o
(Come to the Dot Side! Luke, I am your father. :D )

[Álvaro Vallejo]

Thanks for this initiative.

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

mu'o mi'e la albaros.

[vruxir]

Hmm, that's unusual. Some questions:

- What operating system are you using? So far I've only tested it on Windows XP and Windows 7.

- In the normal right-click menu on a web site, do the options "Enable Lojban Popups" and "Browse Lojban Popup Dictionary" exist? Does "Enable Lojban Popups" have a check mark next to it, meaning it's enabled?

- If "Browse Lojban Popup Dictionary" is there, and you click on it, does the dictionary browser come up in the bottom half of your screen? If it doesn't, that probably means the plugin wasn't able to read the local dictionary file correctly (for some reason), so I could go through my copy and see if there's something problematic (but which didn't cause a problem when I installed it on my browser).

- If "Browse Lojban Popup Dictionary" does bring up the dictionary browser, but none of your searches bring up any results, it could be a similar problem to the previous.


Thanks for trying it out, hopefully we can figure out why it didn't work.

mi ckire do lo nu plitoi .i .a'o kakne lo nu facki fi lo nabmi