If you keep you Links toolbar visible in you browser windows, yet another
alternative would be modifying what's explained for Merriam-Webster dictionary
in the following page:
http://www.m-w.com/button/index.htmIt basically ends up adding a favorite/link
with the following URL (beware; it may wrap to multiple lines in you mail
reader):
IE:
javascript:Qr=document.selection.createRange().text;if(!Qr){void(Qr=prompt('Enter
word to find in Merriam-Webster
Dictionary:',''))}if(Qr)location.href='http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?'+escape(Qr)+'
'
Netscape:
javascript:Qr=document.getSelection();if(!Qr){void(Qr=prompt('Enter word to
find in Merriam-Webster
Dictionary:',''))}if(Qr)location.href='http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?'+escape(Qr)+'
'
I've been using this prompted behavior for other things that I don't have in
DQSD. It's pretty handy.
Thanks,
Özgür
PS: Note that, pop-up windows that doesn't show the Links toolbar would be a
problem for this solution, just as pages with disabled context menu would be
for some of the other solutions.
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Message: 1 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:18:34 -0700 From: Glenn Carr [EMAIL
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Steven, You might also
want to check out some tools here[1] that should work with IE/Avante. I
haven't tried any yet. I *am* really liking being able to search Wikipedia
for selected text now... thanks for the good idea! [1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Browser_tools/Microsoft_Internet_Explorer
Glenn Original Message From: Glenn Carr [EMAIL
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mailing list' dqsd-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re:
[DQSD-Users] Search relatedUpdated to handle right-clicks on links.
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On Behalf Of Glenn Carr Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 7:08 PM To:
'DQSD users mailing list' Subject: Re: [DQSD-Users] Search related
Updated to remove HTML tags from the search text ('bsearch text/b')
_ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Glenn Carr Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 6:19 PM To:
'DQSD users mailing list' Subject: Re: [DQSD-Users] Search related
Steven,Here's a quick-n-dirty solution with some script...
http://www.dqsd.net/misc/SearchWikipediaContextMenu.zipThere are two
files... - search_wikipedia.html -
search_wikipedia_ie_context_menu.regThe .reg file adds a context menu
item Search Wikipedia to Internet Explorer when you have text selected
in the browser. I've only tested this on XP, but it appears to work ok
with Avante and IE.Installation... - Extract the files to some
directory - Edit the .reg file and correct the path to the extracted .html
file. I.e., if you extracted the files to C:\Documents and
Settings\Glenn\My Documents\search_wikipedia.html, change the path in the
.reg to C:\\Documents and Settings\\Glenn\\My
Documents\\search_wikipedia.html - Double click the .reg file to make the
changes in the registry. - You'll need to restart any open browser
windows. - With Avante I had to create an popup exception rule for
*wikipedia* windows.Anyway, it probably could be improved, but it
seems to work pretty well.Glenn _ From: [EMAIL
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Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 4:05 PM To:
dqsd-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [DQSD-Users] Search related
Windows XP Avant BrowserNot strictly DQSD but as this list
has most of the 'search' and 'lookup' gurus on it I hope you will allow
this. I want to be able to highlight text in my browser and then
right click and search Wikipedia for the highlighted text.
Wikipedia has problems but for my purpose (checkable facts and figures) it's
perfect. I find myself typing 'wik etc etc' into DQSD constantly.
Any thoughts on how I can make the link to and search on Wikipedia as smooth
as
