Re: Testing WWWJDIC changes

[Jim Breen <jimbreen@*********>]

The revised WWWJDIC version as discussed below has now been turned loose.

Jim


On 2 May 2018 at 11:11, Jim Breen <jimbreen@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been making some changes in WWWJDIC and I thought I'd
> make a test version available for people to try out (if they are interested)
> before committing to them.
>
> The test version is at: http://www.edrdg.org/cgi-bin/wwwjdic/wwwjdic2?1C
>
> The changes are to do with the other site links associated with each
> entry display. These are the " [Edit][ViewDB][G][GI][S][A]...." strung out
> after the entry display. I have replaced them with a single "Links"
> click-point which opens up a menu of all the available links with expanded
> explanations. It seems to result in a drop in the clutter on the page.
>
> The second change, which is not visible, is that all the URLs for those
> links are being generated by document.write() scripts, which results in
> a significant reduction in the amount of transmitted text in the pages.
> My thanks to Charles Kelly, who helped with the introduction of this
> technique.
>
> Anyway, please try it out if you're a WWWJDIC user. I plan to let it loose
> a week or so.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jim
>
>
> --
> Jim Breen
> Adjunct Snr Research Fellow, Japanese Studies Centre, Monash University
> http://www.jimbreen.org/
> http://nihongo.monash.edu/



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Jim Breen
Adjunct Snr Research Fellow, Japanese Studies Centre, Monash University
http://www.jimbreen.org/
http://nihongo.monash.edu/