| WWAutomatic is completely deprecated
now. Starting on 2.0 version, The WordWeb Dictionary
includes a new feature that allow you to send words to
the dictionary selecting a word and clicking on the
WordWeb icon into the systray. So WWAutomatic is not more
necessary. I recommend you uninstall it and install a new
release of WordWeb (the 3.03 release is fully
recommended). I just finished an extension to send
selected words from the Firefox Browser to the WordWeb
Dictionary.
The extension has a
different way to work. You need only select the word into
Firefox browser window and wait. The WordWeb Dictionary
will pop up showing the sense of the word. You don't need
click on anything, anymore. It was tested in
Firefox 1.0 and "Windows 98", but I suppose it
works in "Windows Me" too. Not tested in
Windows 2000 or XP.
The extension is
named WWAfx and you can download it here.
The current release
is 0.1 and, probably, it be the only one.
Resources:
You need WordWeb Dictionary installed into your
system. WWAfx was tested on WordWeb 3.03
free version (but do exist an enhanced version for sale).
You need Firefox Browser if you want to use a
modern and secure web browser and if you want to run
WWAfx.
Finally, you need WWAfx
extension itself.
There are several sources of information about
Firefox/Mozilla/Thunderbird extensions. I mention the
follow ones:
http://extensions.roachfiend.com/howto_bug.html, an tutorial on create
Firefox extensions
http://www.orablogs.com/duffblog/archives/000536.html , other tutorial on code
Firefox extensions.
http://www.xulplanet.com, it is about XUL
"toolkit". Extensions, and Firefox it self, are
wrote using XUL.
https://update.mozilla.org/extensions , Source of several
fantastic extensions for Firefox, Mozilla and
Thunderbird.
create_xpi.tcl, A simply tcl/tk script I
wrote to make easy create "*.xpi" files.
ScreenShoot
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