Plug-in Name:  E-Dictionary

Version:       English-English Dictionary Release 1.4

Author:        kukukuan

 

 

    This Online DictionaryPlug-in (for Maxthon) is specially designed for English Learners. All itsmeanings are from the famous Oxford Advanced Learners' Dictionary Online(OALDfor short). It provides perfect meanings and numerous examples and useful sentencepatterns, which I personally believe is essential to English learners. Inaddition, this online dictionary also gives many related entries to improveyour linguistic proficiency.

    If you find any Bugswhen using this plug-in, have any suggestions or simply want to chat with me,please do not hesitate to contact with me. The E-mail address below is also my.NET Passport, and you can talk with me via MSN.
E-mail: jiangkuan_1984@hotmail.com

 

 

Special Features

  1. I think it is needless to mentiontoo much about how excellent OALD is. If you are a genuine English learner, itis a necessity.

  2. The appearance of the plug-in isquite simple and tidy, which I am really proud of. Although you can simply lookup a word in the search bar of Maxthon or with other plug-ins, two kinds oflimits are easily found. One is that you need to open a new tab to show themeaning; however, shifting between tabs just to see the meaning is ratherannoying. The other which use <iFrame> to grab the whole content of theweb page containing meanings is also troublesome. The entire structure of theoriginal web page is reserved, but the width of ordinary web page is notsuitable to be placed in the side bar, and as a result, we must drag thehorizontal scroll again and again to see the whole page. What's more, lots ofunnecessary images, ads are downloaded which lead to low efficiency.

    On the contrary, this plug-inonly downloads text, and extracts useful information with regular expression,and at last display the recomposed data. Moreover, all commonly used images isalready downloaded in the images folder, and the remote directories are changedinto local ones in order to speed up the searching process.

    By using this advancemethod, word search is more swift, and the appearance is able to be morefreshing.

   3. Since typing in the inputbox is relatively inconvenient, "Double-Click Search" is integratedin the plug-in. This function can be activated in the Configuration section,and the mouse pointer will change to the shape of "dblClick" indicating this function is working.

 

 

How to Install

    Unzip the folder eDictionary into the Plug-in folder in the Maxthon's main directory (The correct directory after decompression should be "../plugin/Edictionary/").

 

 

How to Use

   1. Search Section: Type theword you want to search, and press "Enter" or click the"Search" button. Or else if you have activated the "Double-ClickSearch" function, just double click the word you want to search.

   2. Entries&MeaningSection: You can choose the items in the combo box to see related information.

   3. History Section: Thissection records the recent 20 searches, and you can review them conveniently.This function is extremely quick when you are working offline (on the basisthat the internet cache was not emptied).

   4. Configuration Section: Youcan activate "Double-Click Search" option or search in SYNCHRONOUSMode here. (Notice: SYNCHRONOUS mode may cause no response for a few seconds.This option is specially designed for those narrow band user to promote thepercentage of successful search.)

 

 

Recent Changes

 

September 20, 2005

Release 1.4

  1. Enhance the effeciency of the Regular Expression;

  2. Modify the Double-Click function, and make it more swift.

 

September 3, 2005

Release 1.3

  1. Correct the Bug of point display after refreshing;

  2. Correct the Bug of Entries in release 1.2;

  3. Separate Settings section from plugin.ini, so that users can directly delete the script\settings.ini to sovle certain problems.

 

August 30, 2005

Release 1.2

  1. Because the OALD Online has been updated to Version 7, the URL is changed, and as a result, the old version will not be able to work from now on;

  2. A large part of codes are modified, and are more efficient;

 

August 28, 2005

Release 1.1

  1. Reduce the consumption ofresources;

  2. Correct a few bugs in "Double-Click Search";

  3. Add a link to reset the plug-in;

  4. Correct some typos and change the icon(The original one is borrowed from LookupWord).

 

August 25, 2005

Beta 1.1

 

August 21, 2005

Release 1.0

  1. Correct the problem of abnormal termination of the searching process;

  2. Correct other small bugs, such as losing "dblClick" pointer after the current page is refreshed or redirected;

  3. Add a link to clear history list.

 

August 19, 2005

Beta 1.0