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Subject: Re: [PIC][255] I wonder if I ever see you again... T-8 days
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 15:37:08 +0200
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> "CeeJay" <usenet2002@ceejay.cjb.netREMOVEthisSPAMfilterTOreply> wrote in
> message news:3d3095f6$0$46313$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk...
> >
> > Here :
> >
>
javascript:Q=document.selection.createRange().text;if(!Q){void(Q=prompt('No
> > text selected on page.
> >
>
Keywords...?',''))};if(Q)location.href='http://www.io.com/cgi-bin/dict?'+esc
> > ape(Q)
> >
>
> I think this works better,
>
> javascript:function trim(str) {str = this != window? this : str;return
> str.replace(/^\s+/g, '').replace(/\s+$/g,
> '');}Q=document.selection.createRange().text;if(!Q){void(Q=prompt('No text
> selected on page.
>
Keywords...?',''))};if(Q)location.href='http://www.io.com/cgi-bin/dict?'+esc
> ape(trim(Q))
>
> Just adds a fuction trim(). This is helpful is you are in the habit
> of double clicking a word to select it. For example when you use
> MSIE, double clicking selects the space after the word.
> This would fail in some servers like www.io.com. So
> the selected word needs to be trimmed.

You are right .. it is better.
It would be even better if any nonletter chars were stripped.
With the english language this is anything other than a -> Z