Nazeka is a rikai replacement.

Nazeka is not ready for general use yet; it does not yet have all the necessary behaviors that rikai variants have.

My code here is terrible, but at least we can all agree that Javascript is a terrible language.

Options

Nazeka has added many options since it was first created, and they're documented within the options page. The following is an example of what options it has:

• Enabled: whether to search pages for text
• Compact: definitions on same line or with linebreaks
• Show original text: shows the string of text that nazeka used to look up a set of definitions
• Super border: add an additional level to the double border
• Fixed width: always use maximum width width, don't shrink to small contents
• Search length: maximum length to search for words
• Matching mode: what kinds of alternative lookups to display
• Strict matching for alternative matches: if true, alternative lookups of hiragana strings will not produce definitions that are not at least usually kana (the longest lookup will always show all possibilities)
• Lookup popup scale: zoom factor for entire popup
• Lookup popup width: maximum width for the lookup
• Lookup throttle: minimum milliseconds between the start of lookups
• Colors: the colors of the popup
• Font override: font override for the whole popup, max priority but will fall back to default fonts for characters not in the font override
• Font override (highlighted text only): for the main spelling of a definition

Building

Build process requires python and lxml, or an existing copy of the extension to rip JMdict#.json from.

• Copy the appropriate manifest.json from etc/ (either etc/firefox/manifest.json or etc/chrome/manifest.json) into the root of the repository
• Download JMdict.gz from http://www.edrdg.org/jmdict/edict_doc.html
• Convert it to json with etc/process.py
• Move the output to under dict/ so that [...]/dict/JMdict1.json and others exist in that location relative to [...]/manifest.json
• Make sure every .json file is listed as available to the extension in manifest.json - if jmdict added a lot of words, there might be more than 11 files now
• Package as an extension for your browser of choice, or load it as a temporary/indev extension using your browser's development tools

Copyright and License

Copyright 2017~2018; Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0