When I encounter words for the first time, I tend to look them up in a dictionary (usually MDBG). Now I use a Lenovo tablet for Skrittering. On the tablet this ain't hard, but it ain't exactly easy either. The steps are:

1) Skritter page--maneuver the cursor to the left of the finished word.

2) Highlight the word.

3) Upper-right pen flick to copy the word.

4) Switch to MDBG in a separate Firefox tab.

5) Select the input field.

6) Lower-right pen flick to paste the word.

7) Click "Go".

All of which is to say that a little coordination is required. But, I mean, I'm learning Chinese, so whatever. Today I learned 胡锦涛 for the first time. I went through my seven steps; on one of the pen flicks, though, I clicked the word in the Skritter window by mistake.

Lo and behold... the word opens, in MDBG, defined, in a fresh Firefox tab.

Hahaha you guys are awesome.

Haha, that's classic.

That's great. Is there any possibility of making an option to link to zhongwen.com instead? Their etymology can't be beat. You'd need to use the traditional character, I believe in Big5 encoding, to generate the link, e.g.

http://zhongwen.com/cgi-bin/zipux2.cgi?b5=%B8%D5

James

Oh no, that's only there as a temporary bone. Attachments are forming! We must design a better one and throw that one away at some point.

James, that link doesn't work on Chrome for some reason; just Firefox. Hmm.

I know, zhongwen.com has some very weird web design. I have been looking for a better etymology site for a while. Suggestions would be welcome.

James