- From: James P. Salsman <bovik@best.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 16:28:48 -0700 (PDT)
- To: www-talk@w3.org
- Cc: joris.dobbelsteen@mail.com
>... Now since not everybody has a Speech system ... More and more languages have talking dictionaries on the web all the time. English has at least a few, for example: http://dictionary.msn.com/find/entry.asp?search=pronounce There you can get a RIFF (.wav) and AIFF audio clip of most words. The trick is providing a useful way to add the selection (which can be obtained differently on different browsers -- see: http://www.webreference.com/js/column12/crossbrowser.html -- for a working form/script example) URL-encoded at the end of your favorite dictionary GET-method URL stub like the one above. This should be easy, but if you open a new window, then you need a way to refer to the window that you are studying from, because each window can have its own selection. That method would save only a few copy-and-paste operations into the dictionary's own form, but when browsing unfamiliar languages, easy access to a dictionary can make a lot of difference. Does anyone have a way to refer to the most recent selection from a different window in J/ECMA/JavaScript? I have a feeling that it is probably possibly on each platform, but in different ways, like obtaining the selection to begin with. Cheers, James -- http://www.bovik.org
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