Andrew Dunbar wrote:
Do you place all articles on the same page using AJAX?
I used it for a couple of personal web apps. I could collect strange new words when reading and enter them as a list which gave me red or blue links for each term so I could see whether they needed a Wiktionary entry or not. I also had a second back end which looked up a reverse engineered Spanish dictionary CD rom with the same API. I was planning to extend it then add all those redlinks to Wiktionary's requested entries page next time I was online. The other web app subscribed to a bunch of word-of-the-day RSS feeds and checked all the words for presence in Wiktionary.
I start to see your reasons. I couldn't figure out why you wanted it on firefox while online. I'm interested on knowing more about what did you do with that dictionary but it may go outside the list scope, so feel free to email directly.
Well XPCOM extensions are platform specific and I'm a big fan of cross-platform tools. I could've built a Windows version but no *nix or OS X version on my little Eee PC. And the js version was faster at looking up offline Wiktionary then looking up the online Wiktionary with a slow connection.
I'm pretty sure they could also be written in a platform agnostic way. But sure, they're easier to do in javascript.