[11649] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Jumbotext - A New Feature to WWW
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James P. Salsman)
Fri Jun 30 15:27:18 2000
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 12:12:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: "James P. Salsman" <bovik@best.com>
Message-Id: <200006301912.MAA19412@shell9.ba.best.com>
To: walkman44@excite.com
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
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> From: Daniel Alexandre <walkman44@excite.com>
> To: www-talk@w3.org
>
> Jumbotext, could be a new tag for a simple but very revolutionary and
> fundamental feature. With jumbotext, in the text of a web page every single
> word would be outlined and in different colour (similar to usual hypertext)
> when pointed by its mouse cursor. Then with a simple click one would see a
> menu to: see the definition of the word, see its translation to different
> languages, and hear the word spoken in audio.
Good idea. A similar idea has been implemented at:
http://www.voycabulary.com/
Best wishes.
Cheers,
James
