Word of the Day

by LpAngelRob

Pulls the current word of the day from one of two sources and displays it with its definition in a font and size you specify.

If it can't find the word, yesterday's word stays up.
Current Version: 3.0

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  1. Jon Connell
    July 11, 2005 · version 2.0 Jon Connell
    Look slike dictionary.com have changed their markup and the comments you're looking for no longer exist. A quick hack to getWordFromDictionaryCom() displays all the definition including some textual references (quotes), which is quite cute. I need to understand your formatDefinition() code better to format the text so that it's not so wide, but the junk is gone. Here's my patch:

    var headTitle = '<h2>Word of the Day for';
    var endQuote = '</blockquote> More

  2. adam
    July 04, 2005 · version 2.0 adam
    Yeah, what is all this junk that comes up with dictionary.com? I like dictionary.com's words much better, but right now it is not usable. Please post a new version to fix this problem. I really want to use it again!

  3. Ric
    June 15, 2005 · version 2.0 Ric
    Anybody else notice using it with Dictionary.com stopped working? Did they change the format of their website or something?

  4. Jason Wolfe
    May 25, 2005 · version 2.0 Jason Wolfe
    This would be really nice if it were to pull more stuff from wordsmith.org, like at least pronunciation. It would also be nice, but not necessary to also play the pronunciation sound clip(s).

  5. beplus
    May 09, 2005 · version 2.0 beplus
    apparently, it doesn't work well related to Level of window. I did checked as Konfabulator only level, however it appears when PC started

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