Hi Todd,

I can't find the UI that the NYTimes uses for the question mark and
answers.com only has a double click feature, where you click on a word and
it will look it up. That would be involved to get a button to come up next
to the highlighted text right now. This does have a thesaurus built in. I
think that later on we can use different services for this function.

I can put the button in a better place but using the search bar would be
pretty involved, so I think putting it under the Member Of widget would be
the best. It would have wording to the effect of "Click here to enter a word
or highlight a word then click here." After the deadline we can make a more
complete design for how we want it to work.


Jimmy

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Todd Davies <davies@stanford.edu>; wrote:

> Todd Davies <http://deme.stanford.edu/viewing/person/11>; commented on The
> Deme Team folio <http://deme.stanford.edu/viewing/folio/24>;
> Comment title: Re: Dictionary<http://deme.stanford.edu/viewing/textcomment/631>
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>
> Good to see. A few comments:
>
> (1) Can we use Answers.com since it provides a thesaurus and broader
> coverage?
>
> (2) I don't think the format line is the best place to put the button. I
> like the idea of a button next to the search box for lookup, together with
> one for search, with search highlighted and invoked by default. Lookup
> could also be a button on top for now, and in the future an option in the
> Action menu.
>
> (3) Good that it works on highlighted text. Can a little button for lookup
> appear (the information "i" icon would work for this, I think, saving "?"
> for help) above the highlight like on the NYTimes website?
>
> (4) Ideally the service to be connected to should be a Deme setting, so
> the admin of a site could choose Answers, Apture, or another service and
> we are not cutting anyone out.
>
> Todd
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> On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, Jimmy Tobin wrote:
>
> > [Jimmy Tobin][1] commented on [The Deme Team folio][2]
> > Comment title: [Dictionary][3]
> >
> > * * *
>
> >
> > Tell me what you think of the new Dictionary. It's next to translate.
> >
> > [1]: http://deme.stanford.edu/viewing/person/46
> > [2]: http://deme.stanford.edu/viewing/folio/24
> > [3]: http://deme.stanford.edu/viewing/textcomment/627
> >
> >
>
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