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Petit Kanji bookmarklets
Some of you may already be familiar with my experimental site Petit Kanji which displays Pizzicato Five lyrics with ruby (hiragana annotation over kanji) and includes integrated English/Japanese and kanji dictionaries. Clicking on any kanji in the lyrics brings up the kanji look-up window.
Anyway, in the case you like the dictionary window and would like to use it when viewing other Web sites, it's now possible because I added bookmarklets! This makes it easy to look up Japanese kanji or Japanese and English words quickly anywhere on the Web.
Installation and usage instructions are on Petit Kanji's bookmarklets page.
Currently tested/supported browsers are Windows IE 5+, Mozilla 1.6+/Netscape 7.1+ and Mozilla Firebird.
* Opera also works but the positioning of the window is no good if you're using Opera's useful tabbed mode.
** Sorry, no support for Mac IE or Safari yet. :( Mac IE can't encode a string to Unicode URL entities, and on Safari I couldn't get the bookmarklets to work at all (perhaps because of security settings? I didn't investigate further yet).
Have fun!
The included dictionaries are EDICT and KANJIDIC, free dictionary data available at the Nihongo FTP Archive.
All dictionary data is copyright ©2004 James William Breen.
Posted on June 4, 2004 at 10:43 | Tweet
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oh man... i had no idea about that site. when (if) you get it working for Safari, you'll make me a very happy man.
Posted by Brent on June 4, 2004 at 20:34
Ok then I'll give it another try. :) I wouldn't think that Safari has no support for this type of thing.
Posted by Patrick on June 4, 2004 at 20:37
don't put yourelf out just for me... but if you ever do get around to it, let me know.
Posted by Brent on June 6, 2004 at 11:00