Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Japanese-English Dictionary Server
Bookmark/Button Generator
This server generates bookmarks which can be placed on the Toolbar/Links
bar of your browser and enable easy access to the WWWJDIC server. Once
you have the bookmarks (which I call Buttons) installed, you simply have
to highlight some word(s) and click on the button to look them up in the
dictionary. These buttons are small Javascript programs, so you will
need to have Javascript enabled.
The buttons have been successfully tested on Firefox, Mozilla, Safari,
IE 5/6/7, Netscape 6/7, Opera 7 and Galeon.
The server generates 3 Buttons:
- J–>E word look-up (Japanese and Romaji),
- E–>J word look-up,
- Japanese words-in-text translation.
On my Firefox toolbar, I have the following:
I can use these buttons in two ways (under Linux - it may be different
with Windows, etc.):
- highlight some text, then click on the button. The WWWJDIC lookup
happens automatically;
- click on the button. A window will pop up into which you can type
or paste text. Here is one from my Firefox:
Creating your Bookmarks/Buttons
You need to specify
your browser/operating system (as the form and coding of the Javascript
differs) and which WWWJDIC site you wish to use.
(*) The bookmark for Safari uses the Javascript "encodeURIComponent()"
function, and may work for other modern browsers such as Firefox, Opera,
etc. With this function you can put kanji/kana keys into the "English"
button too (but not romaji.)
Miscellaneous
You may also be able to set up Opera to invoke WWWJDIC as a
search engine.
Here are some notes for creating buttons for Konqueror.