Jimmy,

Okay, I see now that you are getting synonyms.

I understand about the difficulty of putting in a button on highlight and
double purposing the search box. I do think the button should go where it
logically fits in our layout. Here's the scheme as I see it:

Left side: navigation (Navigation, Member Of, and Recently Viewed widgets)
Upper middle left: iterm hierarchy
Upper middle: search/lookup
Upper middle right: actions
Lower middle: item(s) display
Right side: metadata

Based on this, I'd like to see the "Look up word(s)" link under the search
box or to the right of it somewhere.

Good work!

Todd

On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, Jimmy Tobin wrote:

> [Jimmy Tobin][1] commented on [The Deme Team folio][2]
> Comment title: [Re: Dictionary][3]
>
> * * *
>
> 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>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> 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]
>>>
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>>>
>>> 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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> [2]: http://deme.stanford.edu/viewing/folio/24
> [3]: http://deme.stanford.edu/viewing/textcomment/632
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>