Comments on: Ninja Words: Online Dictionary

By: jasper69

jasper69 — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:04:03 +0000

I found a website faster than Ninjawords. Try to use http://defineitfast.com and you compare it. I have been using this online dictionary for weeks now because their tools for my desktop are very useful for my children.. :)

By: james

james — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:32:07 +0000

it is by far the fastest dictionary i used…way fatser than merriam-webster
…also it allows u to get definition of more words with having the page to be reloaded, guess some people are just uneasy in trying new things..or websites in this case

By: Ribin

Ribin — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:13:51 +0000

see http://enginepuller.com

By: click me

click me — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 06:23:57 +0000

try url

By: ARWolff

ARWolff — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 19:47:26 +0000

You could probably make it PDA friendly by returning REST results as XHTML rather than a method call. This shouldn’t be too hard, given that the Wiktionary source data is XHTML, already. I guess the downside to that is, it would be harder to “protect” and monetize, that way …

By: greg

greg — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 19:01:23 +0000

Not fast on a PDA. Not even usable. PDAs a a perfect target for an app like this when dictionary.com is do massively overloaded with junk. Why do so many new websites ignore the obvious trend of more and more people using PDAs to access the web?

By: Ioannus de Verani

Ioannus de Verani — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:55:18 +0000

I tried it and it isn’t very fast. My good old Webster’s Unabridged Second Edition desk-hog can do the job faster.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:55:13 +0000

It did not find shvantz. What a bummer.

By: kourge

kourge — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:53:32 +0000

Ninja Words is written in Rails and uses Prototype.
The new spam prevention for comments is funny. Also keeps out non-developers. Funny, though.

By: M. Schopman

M. Schopman — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:31:57 +0000

The search displays a file download dialog. The results are probably sent with an invalid header.

p.s. the captcha really humpfs .. “What four letter word starting with ‘A’ is the topic of this blog?”

Topic, blog? Ajaxian, Ninja? Really not a userfriendly approach imho.