Offline Dictionary

Offline Dictionary

An offline dictionary based on Wiktionary.

What is Offline Dictionary?
"Offline Dictionary" is a Chrome extension that offers offline definitional services using Wiktionary. Powered by LZMA compression and packed with innovative tech such as HTML5, FileReader, Blobs, WebWorkers, this extension provides instant definitions and suggestions as you type. For careful parsing, it utilizes WIkiText parser, header/footer HTML tags, incorporating consumer signals in its search engine for efficiency. Note: avoid opening the web inspector for optimal performance. Further source code is available on GitHub.
Merlin
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Users: 40,000+
Rating: 3.67 (386)
Version: 1.0.2 (Last updated: 2012-10-21)
Creation date: 2012-10-21
Risk impact: Very low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • unlimitedStorage
Size: 9.11M
URLs: Website
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Merlin
Summary

Offline Wiktionary for Chrome 9 and above.

Uses HTML5 <progress> element, includes JS implementation of LZMA compression engine, WIkiText parser, Files, FileReader, Blobs, FileWriter, WebWorkers, Typed Arrays, header/footer html tags, uses HTML5 FileSystem API, xkcd comic #214, levenschtein difference, a search engine that incorporates over 4 consumer signals, binary XHR, and lots of cool stuff. Definitions and suggestions appear instantly as you're typing. And please give me a Cr48.

I'm also aware that I probably broke the no-perspectives rule on the icon, but the web store icon also has a perspective, so I doubt it's a huge issue. And whatever you do, do not open the web inspector, because it has memory leaks with successive file reads that happens a lot with its binary search algorithm. Not opening web inspector is fine.

This is basically a pre-release of js-wikireader which is pretty much the same thing except that js-wikireader handles multiple several-gigabyte wikipedia dumps. I'm pretty certain it works pretty well already, but I haven't figured out how to get hosting and downloading (probably payment too) to work for those dumps. But anyway, the code for that (and most of this) can be found at https://github.com/antimatter15/js-wikireader

User reviews
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Pros
  • Works offline
  • Fast
  • Simple and easy to use
Cons
  • No definitions
  • Inconsistent word meanings
  • Not enough word detail
Most mentioned
  • Offline usage
  • Fast
  • Accessible
Recent reviews
No definitions
by Koltin Driver Koltin Driver, 2018-08-03

fantastic FREE APP that is working OFF-LINE !!! when ONLINE, we all have plenty of fantastic options, but when working OFF-LINE nothing, except that small fantastic APP, - indispensable unless you like to switch pages in PAPER [ book ] dictionary !!! - very fast !!! ================== thanks, ric maxy
by fresh clean fresh clean, 2017-07-13

estou avaliando ainda
by Jayme Bressy Jayme Bressy, 2016-05-06
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Safety
Risk impact

Offline Dictionary is safe to use. It does not request any sensitive permissions.

Risk likelihood

Offline Dictionary has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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