From: Kragen Sitaker (kragen@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Nov 14 2000 - 14:22:45 PST
Willem Broekema writes:
> Erik F. Kastner wrote:
> > heres what I use when I don't know a word (IE 4+ only)
> > make a file in
> [snip]
> > then just highlight, and right click on a word you don't know, go to "Word
> > Lookup" and viola!
>
> A bookmarklet with url
>
> javascript:q=document.getSelection();if(!q){void(q=prompt('Word...',''))};if(q)location.href='http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va='+escape(q)
>
> gives about the same functionality, FWIW.
Here's a dict.org version, without the prompt:
<a href="javascript:location='http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Strategy=*&Database=*&Form=Dict1&Query='+escape(document.getSelection())">Lookup</a>
Here's a version that pops up windows from dict.org, m-w.com, and
dictionary.com:
<a href="javascript:q=escape(document.getSelection());void window.open('http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Strategy=*&Database=*&Form=Dict1&Query='+q);void window.open('http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va='+q);void window.open('http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term='+q)/*kjs*/">Lookup</a> another word in a new window
Unfortunately, these are Netscape-only; I should go ahead and figure
out how to document.getSelection() in MSIE.
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Perilous to all of us are the devices of an art deeper than we ourselves
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