I am having a bit of difficulty learning to use the firefox plug-in FireDictionary.

http://www.firedictionary.com/

Is anyone using this? Has great potential due to almost seamless integration with smart.fm website, and a nice history pane - a very easy way to capture vocab that one comes across and input it into smart.fm lists for later review. It seems to do a great job with English to Japanese, but not the other way around.

The problem I am having is that, unlike Rikaichan, it does not do a good job of discerning where Japanese words begin and end. With Rikaichan it happens very intuitively by scrolling over the right spot in a given kanji compound.

Also, less importantly, the iknow/smart.fm pane is mojibake.

Anyone using FireDictionary have some hints for me?

http://www.firedictionary.com/

Fire dictionary main features:

By moving the mouse cursor, a translation appears on the sidebar. FireDictionary finds the translation as a real-time operation when you move the mouse cursor.

FireDictionary uses English-Japanese dictionary GENE95 as a dictionary content, which contains 57,350 words. It's fast to find the translations because the dictionary content is on your PC.

You can add a translation to the history panel on the sidebar. You might have experienced forgetting the translation you've looked for in a dictionary. FireDictionary provides memory in the browser, and it's in your sight, so you don't have to do that again.

FireDictionary works on many kinds of operating systems that accept Firefox like Windows, Mac or Linux.

FireDictionary.com provides this function with triple licenses MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1. It's free to use it for commercial and non-commercial use.

FireDictionary is an extensible platform for multidictionaries. We can also add another dictionary using JavaScript.

Some of the users have added other dictionaries to FireDictionary like Taiwanese to English, English to Japanese medical dictionary, French to Japanese dictionary and so on...

isn't this what Rikaichan does?

Hashiriya Wrote:isn't this what Rikaichan does?

As far as I know there is no link between Rikaichan and smart.fm, otherwise Rikaichan is clearly superior. Correct me if I'm wrong. I crave that seamless whole system integration.

Can it get J-J definitions?

nac_est Wrote:Can it get J-J definitions?

I don't see that functionality, but have a look at the forum on the FireDictionary website.

http://www.firedictionary.com/modules/newbb/

Looks like all in nihongo, so I can only wade through it very slowly.

The more I fiddle with this, the more I like it, and yet frustrated with it at the same time. Almost instant audio clips for any item that is already in the smart.fm database.

nac_est Wrote:Can it get J-J definitions?

Hmmm... looking at the website it see something about 英英 and other dictionaries that could be loaded... could be a possibility.
http://www.firedictionary.com/modules/ti...x.php?id=7

Quote:　FireDictionary は拡張可能なマルチ辞書プラットフォームです。JavaScript を用いた開発を行うことで、任意の辞書コンテンツを組み込むことが可能です。辞書コンテンツは英和辞典にとどまらず、英語をキーワードとした、英韓、英中、英仏、英独、英英などの各種辞典が対象です。

　FireDictionary は、新規辞書組み込みを意識したフレームワーク構造をしています。実際、検索キーワード(文字列)を引数に取り、検索結果(文字列)を戻り値とする lookup() メソッドを含んだクラスを作成するだけで、新しい辞書コンテンツに対応することができます。

　辞書開発に関する説明を行うために、FireDictionary には gene95 とは別にダミーの辞書コンテンツがインストールされています。ここではこのダミーコンテンツの構造と、そのFireDictionary への組み込み方を通じて、FireDictionary をカスタマイズする方法について説明していく予定です。

参考:ダミーコンテンツ
src/content/firedictionary/classes/dictionary/dummyDictionary/DummyDictinoary.js

辞書の追加機能についてはこちら