Rikaichan Firefox Extention
I've modified (i.e. I did not program it!) the great Rikaichan addon for Firefox.
My modification
I added a new action to Rikaichan: Rikaichan Word List. What this new action will do can be seen in the following screenshots.
I only added new functions to the addon, I did not change the existing behavior!
My modification is only available in Firefox at the moment, not in Thunderbird. The normal Rikaichan behavior is still useable in Thunderbird, though! But it will (of course) need the dictionary files from the original Rikaichan to be installed alongside!
Download my modification: Rikaichan [551KiB][Version: 1.11]
The installation is the same as for the original. In fact you can just install my version over the original, that'll do the trick.
As you can see in the screenshots this modification is pretty dumb at the moment, it doesn't know about the context of a kanji or sentence part and it will always pick the very first translation it finds. This will most definitly lead to wrong results in the word list (this is shown in the second screenshot) so be sure you check the results again! This modification is only intended as a kind of a first help. I programmed it to help me prepare vocuablary lists for my text translation courses at University.
Feel free to send me comments or improvement suggetions.
Known Error
Sometimes this error might occur Sorry, I can't make a word list because of ...(see next screenshot). At the moment I don't know why it occurs, but I'll try to fix it as soon as I figure it out.
License
This software is available under the open source GPL license.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
Original Rikaichan for Firefox
If you study Japanese and use Firefox as your webbrowser you should most definitly check out this addon: http://www.polarcloud.com/rikaichan/! It's a great piece of software which will aid you in looking up translations for unknown Japanese words/kanji on every webpage. Take a look at the example screenshot and you'll understand the power of this tool! (Screenshot shamelessly borrowed from http://rikaichan.mozdev.org!)
Daniel Gollub, 2007/11/09