This is a version of the rikai (rikaichan, rikaisama, rikaikun) Japanese translation extension, which has been created for the Safari browser. When activated, simply place your cursor over Japanese words to display their dictionary definitions in a popup.
You can download and install the latest version of the extension from Apple's Safari extension page, or you can download the extension here.
When clicking this the extension should be downloaded to the folder where you keep your safari downloads. From there click the extension and it should install.
Version 2.0 (4/1/2015): The toolbar icon now changes when the extension is active, showing a small star above the Kanji in the icon. I've also added the ability to get J-J definitions, based on the Sanseido mode function in Rikaisama. Press the 's' key to change to J-J definitions, and the extension will pull in definitions from sanseido if possible.
Version 1.9.2 (1/18/2015): Fixed errors causing extension to not start.
Version 1.9.1 (1/14/2014): Added an option to disable contextual menu items.
Version 1.9.0 (12/18/2014): Added contextual menu option to enable or disable extension. To access menu simply ctrl+click or right click within the browser window. When the extension is enabled, there is also now an option within the contextual menu to enable or disable popups if you only want to disable popups for a temporary period of time without disabling the entire extension. Also added ability to hide a popup that shows up by pressing the h key.
Version 1.8.3 (12/18/2014): Fixed misspelled initialStickyPopup for 'b' key case, causing b key to not function properly.
Version 1.8.2 (11/17/2014): More console console error messages reported, removed messages for user version to prevent intrusiveness.
Version 1.8.1 (11/4/2014): Had some console messages that weren't removed, which could be an annoyance to users who see the console. I've removed them.
Version 1.8 (9/6/2014): Added a feature to display the frequency of a word. Based on a word frequency database obtained from Rikaisama, by Christopher Brochtrup. Green is very common, gold is common, orange is uncommon, and pink is rare.
Version 1.70.8 (9/3/2014): Issued a fix to the extension not disabling when toolbar button is clicked.
If you run into any problems with the extension, or would like to suggest a new idea or improvement, please add to the list of issues here, or email me at [email protected].
The css folder contains the css files that alter the appearance of the popup boxess and the text within.They currently come in black, blue, light blue, translucent black, white, and yellow.
global.html is the global page of the extension. It is primarily the "back end" of the extension, loading to and from the dictionaries and settings, determining if the extension was activated or deactivated, if the user changed tabs in their browser, etc., and sending messages to rikaitan.js accordingly.
rikaitan.js is primarily the "front end" of the extension, taking the data as the user gets them, sending it to global.html, and processing it in a visual form for the user.
The data folder contains database files for kanji, words, names, etc.
Rikaitan Copyright (C) 2014 Jorden Hill
Based on Rikaikun
Copyright (C) 2010 Erek Speed
http://code.google.com/p/rikaikun/
Uses concepts and data from Rikaisama
Christopher Brochtrup
[email protected]
http://rikaisama.sourceforge.net/
Originally based on Rikaichan 1.07
by Jonathan Zarate
http://www.polarcloud.com/
Originally based on RikaiXUL 0.4 by Todd Rudick
http://www.rikai.com/
http://rikaixul.mozdev.org/
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
Please do not change or remove any of the copyrights or links to web pages when modifying any of the files. - Jon