Dictionary Look-up from Chimera’s Toolbar
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One LazyWeb request recently was for dictionary look-ups from the browser toolbar (something neat and favelet-like). Ben Hammersley posted one but the trouble was that it didn’t work in Chimera if you told the browser to block pop-up windows.
I fiddled around with it and now it works from Chimera even if pop-ups are disabled. Drag the link below to your toolbar:
While we’re on the subject, here’s one that works for the thesaurus:
And of course you know about the Google one already:
Just drag these to the toolbar (or wherever you’d like to keep them) and away you go. You can rename them to whatever you like.
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Posted to Computers 2003.01.20 (Mon) • 23:14
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Posted by Richard 2003.01.21, 00:03
Also works in Safari! Yoohoo! First time visitor but I’ll stick around for while. Thanks for that little jewel. (I came via Nadine & Tim via Hunkabutta.)
Posted by Richard 2003.01.21, 00:05
Oops. Sorry about the double. Some trouble with the script and Safari response or did I just fall asleep?
Posted by Chas. 2003.01.21, 00:33
This makes my life better. Thanks.
Posted by jh 2003.01.21, 00:33
Richard — Welcome! They should work just fine pretty much anywhere.
Safari is not terribly tolerant about how it waits for things to get processed. I consistently get errors from it, but the comments do go through. I don’t know why my pages are so slow to rebuild after posting a comment. Been annoying me for a while.
Posted by Wevah 2003.01.21, 02:36
Another thing you can do (and I do, which is why I’m telling you :p) is make a bookmark that looks something like this:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%s
Give it a hotkey (e.g., “g”). Then, you can go up to the location bar, and simply type g something to search for, and all the text after “g” will replace the %s in the URL.
That is, uh…In case you didn’t already know.
;D
Posted by Mary Beth 2003.01.21, 13:24
whoa - nice job. Thanks Jeremy. I’ve got it up for both Chimera and Safari. Much quicker than launching Sherlock.
Mary Beth
Posted by gemp 2003.01.21, 23:11
I had this nifty little bookmarklet that would search Google with whatever was selected on the page — or display a dialog when nothing was. That trick would be handy with the dictionary lookup :)
Of course, it only works on IE, but I used it so much before Safari.
Posted by mayize 2003.01.22, 02:55
These are great and much appreciated! Thanks.
Posted by Dav 2003.01.22, 10:31
When you highlight web page text and right-click in the stock Mozilla install (the world’s best browser!) you can select google search from the pop up menu. I’d like to recompile it to add the dictionary lookup to the popup menu, but in the meantime this dictionary bookmarklet works on Mozilla:
[Dav — I wrapped that long URL in a link because the line stretched clear across the page underneath the right-hand column and beyond! Looked cool but was difficult to copy. -jh]
Posted by Jay 2003.01.22, 18:46
Sorry about the multitude of trackback pings. Apparently there’s a bug…
Posted by Mary Beth 2003.01.23, 13:30
I just wanted you to know that I passed along this posting to my co-workers at the Apple Store and the reaction was uniformly — “Very Cool.” Especially when we saw that you could stash the javascript links in the drop downs as well. I feel ever so organized now.
Posted by Nancy 2003.01.23, 14:46
Thank you! I’m always needing to use Webster’s in particular, and that will save me a great deal of time with Chimera.
Posted by Michael J. 2004.04.07, 06:20
I’m wondering if the Moz_dictionary script can be altered so that the word is looked up in a new tab instead of a new window or if that has to do with my personal settings. -mjs
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