cool firefox plugin for people who can't read chinese well

[Sonny To]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3349
useful for reading chinese website for us illiterate folks :)

[Julien bernard]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Sonny To <son.c.to@gmail.com> wrote:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3349
useful for reading chinese website for us illiterate folks :)

 
Thanks, it works great!

-- Julien

[Frederic Muller]

Definitely cool, but then stardict does the same for any text all across
applications. And you get to chose which dictionary to pick.

Fred

[Robert]

Hi Sonny,

Since you brought up this subject. It's been on my mind for quite awhile.
I actually learned and improved most of my Chinese reading and writing when
I was here working.
At the office they had two programs called Dr.Eye (Taiwan) and JinShan CiBa
(China).
Both were good translation programs, since you can use it for Office prog's
or on the Internet.
What you do is you move the mouse to the particular character Chinese or
English you do not know and it will give you an English/Chinese meaning.
What set both of these programs apart was that, Dr.Eye provided PinYin text
as well as the translation. That helped immensely as I wasn't able to
recognize some complex Chinese characters. The only problem was, Dr'Eye
only recognized Traditional characters and translation was in Traditional
characters. But it didn't bother me as much since I preferred reading
Traditional text over Simplified. Ciba lacked the PinYin feature, I guess
this program was provided for the Locals.
So I'm wondering if there is an Open-Source program that can do both? Or
even a paid version would be ok. I think these programs will help someone
who are able to read or understand a little bit of Chinese.
Robert
P.S But thanks for the plug in, will try and see how it works... : )