Short Version: sketch your kanji before flipping the card at http://koohiitouch.khakionion.com !!!!!

Long version: I have made something! Specifically: a touchpad for sketching kanji before you flip your RTK flashcards.

Be kind! I'm relatively new to RTK, so if you use this site in a way I haven't anticipated, it may not work. Bug reports are welcome, and/or appreciated.

Anyway...

So. If you own an iPad, check out http://koohiitouch.khakionion.com on said device after logging in and you will get your latest expired kanji, BUT with a touch interface applied to the lower-quarter of the screen. The yellow pads are for you to sketch kanji before flipping cards.

History!
I wrote this because I just started RTK, but I have three years of prior Japanese experience. RTK feels awkward--I know some Nihongo, Kanji and Hiragana--but RTK teaches me a different perspective on it...! THUS--let's learn in the standard RTK method, but add Kanji strokes into it. I'm enjoying it! The extra stroke memorization seems to dovetail with meaning memorization.

All comments are greatly appreciated. Please; tear my code up, and I'll make it better.

Screenshots:

I don't have an ipad, but if I did I'd probably give this a try, it's pretty darn cool looking!

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Hey Khakionion, that's pretty cool Unfortunately I don't have an iPad yet, so I tried it in the iOS emulator.

While I admit I wasn't convinced of the utility of the scratchpad on desktop, it does make sense on the iPad.

I'll sticky up the thread for some time. Hopefully there are a few iPad owners who could give you some feedback.

Sign in and password? Are you kidding me?

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That may be an issue. I don't know if it's possible to read the IFRAME contents from the parent document, if the IFRAME loaded a different domain. Hmm. *embarrassed*

If you logged in the site previously, with the "keep me logged in" option, you have the cookie set so you don't need to login through Khakionion's "mod".

Here's the javascript used on the page.

ファブリス Wrote:That may be an issue. I don't know if it's possible to read the IFRAME contents from the parent document, if the IFRAME loaded a different domain. Hmm. *embarrassed*

If you logged in the site previously, with the "keep me logged in" option, you have the cookie set so you don't need to login through Khakionion's "mod".

Here's the javascript used on the page.

Heh, yes I know it's not the best presentation, but it's just loading kanji.koohii.com into an inline frame, and it's not possible for me to touch the contents of the inside page since khakionion.com is on a different domain from koohii.com. I know this because originally, I was going to have the scratchpad auto-erase once a new keyword was shown. Oh well, can't hook into DOM events from inside a cross-domain inline frame.

I've been using this for the past week, and it's really helped my studies. I've gotten a few ideas to make it better, and more stable; if I find the time, I'll implement them, as well as consider any suggestions you guys have.

If you want more documentation on why scooping up your cookies, passwords, etc is not possible via the IFRAME element, check out this documentation on the matter. Similar security is implemented in Firefox, IE, and the HTML5 spec.

Short version: the only way for documents from different domains to communicate across an inline frame is if *both* pages are opting-in to the messaging, and even then they can only trade messages, not read one another's content.

...oh, you may notice I added buttons to quickly navigate between different boxes/categories of cards. It's not pretty, but it works for now.

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Hi Khakionion,

Thanks for clearing up the IFRAME thing. I had a hunch this wasn't possible, but wasn't sure.

Just a thouhgt: I think Safari has a similar plugin system as Greasemonkey, based on Javascript. Though I don't know if you can change the extensions on iOS's Safari.

Hi Khakionion,

It works pretty good and you've taken away one of my excuses to avoid doing reviews. (I like to write out the kanji when i'm doing reviews on my iPad, but don't usually have a pen and paper handy.)

Thanks for your hard work! I'll put it to good use.

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I am unsticky-ing this topic, but you could add a link into the newly sticky-ed RevTK Software Developer Showcase.