Some of you may already know I’ve wasted put a great amount of time into creating the Digital Pali Reader as a tool to make reading the Pali texts easier for those who already have basic grammar skills. Well, a couple of months ago, while touring Northern Thailand together, one of my students gave me the idea to turn it into a Firefox extension, something I’d never thought of before but which is ideal for this particular project.
I immediately assumed it would take a lot of tweaking to turn a javascript and xml based project into a Firefox extension; turns out all it took was adding a container file, setting some variables and creating the right file structure. In a short time, I had a semi-working extension up and running. Cookies didn’t seem to work, so rather than figure out why, I moved to using Firefox’s in-built preference system, much preferable anyway. That part isn’t finished yet, but it works with a restart after changing the preferences. The rest seems to work as it should. Anyone interested should now download the reader here:
https://gaea.site5.com/~sirimang/pali/digitalpalireader.xpi
Let me know if it actually works outside of the lab.
Yuttadhammo
Nice! I couldn't crash it so far
Hi, I like this one. Works fine. Really helped until now. Nice workflow possible. Keep up the good work !
May all beings share in this merit for the acquisition of all kind of happiness.
May beings inhabiting space and earth,
Devas and Nagas of mighty power,
share in this merit.
May they long protect the Buddha's Dispensation.
The Digital Pali Reader is awesome.