Published by alax on 25 Aug 2008
Longman Dictionary Online updated their website and changed HTTP request syntax, so search plugin for Firefox requires update. Here is the updated Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Search Plugin for FireFox.
Published by alax on 14 Aug 2008
I wonder what was the reason to change and basically disable well known behavior on multipart/x-mixed-replace MIME type with the release of FireFox 3? It never worked with Internet Explorer but it has been working with Mozilla Netscape through FireFox 2. Why the hell this was to be changed?
GET /cgi-bin/zzz HTTP/1.1 Host: xxx:yyy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: ru,en-us;q=0.7,en;q=0.3 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: windows-1251,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: GoAhead-Webs Pragma: no-cache Cache-Control: no-cache Content-Type: multipart/x-mixed-replace;boundary=myboundary --myboundary Content-type:image/jpeg DaemonId:0x00360003
No longer I can check server push M-JPEG streams using FireFox, supposedly there is a configuration tweak to bring well known behavior back.
Published by alax on 11 Jul 2008
Longman Dictionary, my favorite one, offers online dictionary service through its website Longman Dictionary Online http://pewebdic2.cw.idm.fr/.
I did not notice any intent to offer integration tools, instead they only made available pronouncation .wav files for words starting with two letters, but luckily it is still quite easy to integrate Firefox with the website through a search plugin (if installed manually, it should be copied into %user%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\%profile%\searchplugins).
