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Friday, January 07, 2005

Elements Dictionary
All the elements from the periodic table is now available. Thanks to Jay F. Kominek for the database. http://ucsub.colorado.edu/~kominek/elements/ you could search the elements by name, symbol or atomic number. Thanks to John Kane for the WordNet scripts. This will be my next task.

posted by gavi at 1:47 PM

7 Comments:

  • Just a thought...you're currently sending the request on every key stroke, which creates a ton of connections (as you noted) and would also be pretty nasty on a low-bandwidth connection. Have you considered using a timer? You could check every X seconds to see if the query's changed, and update if necessary then. This would reduce the queries considerably. Since most people can type a 6-character word in ~5 seconds, if the timer is set to, say, 3 seconds, you'd reduce the 6 queries down to 2 queries. Just a thought -- looks great!

    -Jerod
    jvenema AT nc DOT rr DOT com

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:45 PM  

  • You are a genius... this is addictive. Howsabout a thesaurus next?

    By Blogger Michelle Collins, at 1:48 AM  

  • Great Dictionary!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:30 PM  

  • You are really smart and a genius. How many words are in your dictionary?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:05 PM  

  • Thank you
    Number of items in the database

    Classical - 182696
    FOLDOC - 14078
    Elements - 124

    By Blogger gavi, at 4:38 PM  

  • I'm definitely getting addicted to your dictonary. One thing that would boost its usefulness for me would be if you decrease the min-width of the input field/autocomplete box. Then I could it could be used as a sidebar for opera(or firefox).
    Apart from that, excellent work!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:26 PM  

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