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AJAX Inline Dictionary like WallStreetJournal.com

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the how-to-do-it dept.

chevoldavis writes "Highlight any text on this site then right click. A tooltip containing the definition of the selected word should show up. This tutorial will show you how to accomplish this, step by step. You can modify it to call any function or webservice. This is similar to the WallStreetJournal.com except they show search results in their tooltip window and they leave the functionality of the context menu while I have chosen to supress it. "

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  1. stop that! by acvh · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I want my right mouse button to do what it always does, not what YOU want it to do.

  2. 2 things by giorgiofr · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. I can right-click or double-click any word on any page on the webs and I get a nice "Dictionary" item in my context menu. That's because I use a sensible browser, so I don't depend on your service.
    2. My right-click menu is *sacred*. Really, I kill kittens on its altar every morning. Thou shalt not dare to touch it. For he will not slay thee in thy turn, etc etc. Seriously, don't mess with people's interface. Luckily my fancy browser denies such requests as yours.
    Did I mention I use a cool browser?

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  3. This is great by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is great, if you define all words as "The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error."

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    It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
  4. Great, but Wrong by 99BottlesOfBeerInMyF · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm sure a lot of us find this kind of crap annoying. A website developer just not have enough information to determine what my most common tasks are and thus properly define a right-click menu for me. I don't want them to have that information. My right-click menu already has a dictionary in it, as well as a handful of other functions. Now this site pops up a second context menu on the page that takes much, much longer to load and has fewer of the functions I want.

    To me this says, "screw you" to users of decent browsers in favor of working around IE + Windows failure to provide a good way to integrate this functionality in the proper location.

  5. what about word translation ? by arkaino · · Score: 4, Interesting

    More useful would be to right click and get a menu with different languages for translating the word I'm highlighting.