It only happens with a single word highlighted, so it is not likely to be an irritation. I like it. It popped up just as I was about to activate my macro copying the word and looking it up at answers.com.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Instant answers
CBS news web site has a pretty cool feature: if you highlight a word in an article, instantly a popup window appears with a definition from answers.com.
It only happens with a single word highlighted, so it is not likely to be an irritation. I like it. It popped up just as I was about to activate my macro copying the word and looking it up at answers.com.
It only happens with a single word highlighted, so it is not likely to be an irritation. I like it. It popped up just as I was about to activate my macro copying the word and looking it up at answers.com.
Cool. But it works only when you select the word by double clicking, not from mere highlighting (at least for me).
ReplyDeleteIt seems they are calling it AnswerTips.
These kinds of things are what they refer to as "Ajaxifying" your web site.
Huh?
ReplyDeleteEolake said: "Huh?"
ReplyDelete"Cool" is a slang word meaning excellent and impressive. I liked the feature you reported on.
Thank you very much. I wonder why I never heard that expression before. It's... "cool".
ReplyDeleteOr did you perhaps mean to ask about "ajaxifying"?
ReplyDeleteAjax is a buzzword referring to a newish programming technique for the web. People use it to create interactive features such as AnswerTips.
Aha. Cool.
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