Hi David,

Yeah, mine's broken too. And the popup appears to be working on my XP
box, I get a "<term> not found" message in a popup.

I'll see if I can find some time to look into it...

Thanks,
- Kim

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 17:12, David Blume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that this is due to a change over at Merriam Websters.
>  Their cgi-bin link just doesn't work anymore.
>
> I've already dirtied my own sandbox's mwd.xml.  But I don't think the regular
> "mwd" search worked anymore either.  Somebody with a clean sandbox
> could try it out by typing,
>
> mwd <word>
>
> in the DQSD.  The popups haven't been a problem.  I've had this
> working for years.
>
> Environments:
>
> launchmode=1;  (On two computers.  Default browser is Mozilla Firefox
> 3.0.1. on each.)
> OS: Windows XP (on one computer), Windows Vista (on another)
>
> --David
>
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Kim Gräsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> Does the regular mwd search work?
>>
>> After all the security enhancements to IE, popups have been hard to
>> get working properly -- are you still on Windows XP, or Vista?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> - Kim
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 23:33, David Blume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> My favorite feature of DQSD is my alias of the ":" terminator to "mwd
>>> /p" to cause definitions to appears in a popup window.
>>> (Here's a link that shows the alias: 
>>> http://dblume.livejournal.com/65402.html )
>>>
>>> It looks like Merriam Websters has changed their cgi-bin
>>> implementation, because "mwd /p" doesn't work anymore.
>>>
>>> Maybe the fix is simply to remove "cgi-bin/" from the URL, but this
>>> isn't something I can easily test until I get some free time at home.
>>

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