Show HN: Wordsmith - jquery plugin that adds on-demand word definitions

by richhollis • 14 years ago

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grk• 14 years ago

That's really nice, but double-clicking a word is not obvious. Would it be possible to show the translate icon after you hover the cursor over a word for a few seconds?

osener3• 14 years ago

IMHO selecting text (it doesn't detect double-clicking, it is a way to select a word implemented by the browser) is the intuitive way to do this. It gives me instant feedback and doesn't distract me when I didn't mean to hover a word while reading.

imjared• 14 years ago

Cool plugin. Would be great if the definition would load in the bubble instead of an entirely new window.

osener3• 14 years ago

I agree, they should at least enable this plugin on word definition pages. If I want to check out another word I found in the definition I need to switch to a different interface and lose context (I also hate having to do that with my Kindle).

kranner• 14 years ago

You don't need to switch interfaces to look up words on the Kindle. On my Kindle Keyboard, I can take the caret to just before a word for a quick definition popover. Press return from there to go to the detailed entry on the bundled Oxford Dictionary of English.

Kartificial• 14 years ago

Funny that is does not know what Javascript means ;)

For the rest, cool plugin and i cannot agree more with the tips by grk and imjared.

542458• 14 years ago

It also doesn't know what "definitions" means. Their dictionary seems a bit incomplete.

username3• 14 years ago

Selecting multiple words returns Internal Server Error.

crowell• 14 years ago

very cool plugin. I'd like the definition to show up in a tooltip or something by default though. opening up a new window is a bit annoying.

gawker• 14 years ago

Very cool and I second that. Opening a new window loses the flow for me. A pop-up would be much better.

sergiotapia• 14 years ago

Pretty cool, but I don't like the massive branding everywhere in the definition window.

bgilroy26• 14 years ago

>var appName = "wordsmith";

>$.fn[appName] = function(options) {...}

I haven't read many jQuery plugins, is setting off the function name in a variable a common thing to do?

k3n• 14 years ago

Do you know how to read code? Because it appears that you're attempting to prove you can, but at the same time, you seem willfully ignorant as to the uses of that variable.

Search in the code for that identifier and you might learn why he created it.

jesseddy• 14 years ago

Hey everyone, this is one of the makers - great feedback so far just wanted to say thank you.

richhollis• 14 years ago

Hey everyone (& jess). Thanks from me too for all your feedback. It's been great to read.

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