Shaw-Spell web UI

I’ve been tinkering away on Shaw-Spell, improving the way lemmas, forms and word senses are grouped in the dictionary. But a more interesting change is perhaps the web UI I created for the dictionary this weekend.

It was a fairly straightforward adaptation of the macOS dictionary: an intermediate form of the dictionary was already an xml document with everything in the right place, so parsing that and displaying it in a web page was not hard.

I wanted to make sure that macOS’s dictionary behavior of being able to click on every word in the definition was also available in the web version, so the UI inserts spans around every word for that purpose.

Please give it a go at https://joro.io/shaw-spell.

Otherwise, I have also updated the macOS version to be a Universal binary that can run on Ventura – you can download that version here.