ナントイイマスカ

Changes in revision 5:

* Removed platform sniffing - I no longer care
* Added close button to conform with widget style guidelines
* Sped up some fades
* Fixed bug where you could click on multiple alternatives in quiz

Changes in beta-4:

* Korean!
- 1800 hanja characters (900 junior high school and 900 high school)
- Hangul jamo
- McCune-Reischauer, Revised Romanization, and Yale romanization support
* Lots of bugfixes
* Some general improvements

Changes in beta-3:

* Quiz feature!
* Increased number of kanji from 1945 to 3428. The new ones are categorized as:
- jimmei: the additional general use kanji for use in names
- freq.: the most frequently used kanji in newspapers outside the general use kanji
- add.: additional kanji included in Jack Halpern's New Japanese-English Character Dictionary

Changes in beta-2:

* Added Chinese (traditional & simplified) characters
* Added Japanese hiragana and katakana characters
* Added "show variant" functionality that shows traditional/simplified variant in hanzi mode and corresponding katakana/hiragana in kana mode
* Made searching faster and better
* Unified and improved the "return" and "reset search" buttons
* Moved the "select shown as current" functionality to the main view
* Links in the popup version will open in a new page
* Added option to show pinyin tones as accented characters
* Increased opacity on some pixels in the upper left corner
* Gazillions of fixes and improvements

Possibly planned features:

* Show radical and stroke count
* Flash card drilling/testing
* Words featuring the character

present_day: thanks! stay tuned for beta-2

hallvors: tell me if you know another platform that doesn't have this bug and I'll add it. you see... I spent like 10-20 hours learning how to make web 2.0 graphics (I'm a complete graphics noob) and about the same amout of time (_spare_ time, mind you) making and tweaking the graphics, only to find out opera f***ks it all up so no, I'm not adding a "continue anyway".

I thought about downloading the kanji list, but I didn't really see any point in it except to waste time and bandwidth and memory. if you want it synchronized with some certain site's kanji of the day that could probably be achieved without downloading the whole list again anyway... but I didn't find any on rikai.com.

Ugh all night coding spree Anyway I'm really satisfied with the quiz feature. It's even fun!

Since I'm alone this weekend, I whipped up a beta-4 with Korean added! After all, who doesn't wanna learn some Korean? What's next? you might ask. Jurchen? Well maybe...

If anyone who's into Korean reads this then (you never know, thanks to google) please help me check the correctness... especially of the romanizations. And I didn't really find any good resources (non-commercial databases, etc) on Korean so what's in there now is whipped up from various sources. A database with precomposed hangul permutations with romanizations would be nice to have...

It's interesting that if you search for 漢文敎育用基礎漢字 (the Korean equivalent of Japan's 教育漢字) most hits are about the Japanese version just mentioning the Korean one in passing. Oh well...

Heh funny. I just noticed this widget was available on widgets.opera.com, altho only version 1... so I uploaded version 4 now. Good, then I don't have to keep on hosting that file myself.

The latest version (revision 5) runs on all platforms. And it's in the Widget World Cup for Japan, so please download it.

Usagichan: Thanks a lot! I don't think I'll port it to Yahoo! Widgets because they use a non-standard technology that I don't have any particular interest in learning, but I'll port it to MS Gadgets once they become available on Windows XP and Vista! And Dashboard once Apple decides to give me a Mac...