CantoDict Version History www.cantodict.com / www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk v1.3.12 - Feb 2008 - wordlist: increased Chinese character size by two points - wordlist: removed "book" icon to show full detail (now redundant due to next change) - wordlist: changed words on this page to use Chinese parser popup, rather than linking each character separately. - bugfix: characters that are also simplified equivalents were linking to the wrong entry: http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,77588 v1.3.11 - August 2007 - KangXi radical search now shows all 214 KangXi radicals + variants - Editors can now select KangXi radical number via a dropdown when adding characters. - Chinese Word Puzzle script added that is fed from CantoDict data - Bug fix: KangXi radical search no longer shows an inactive textbox when selected - Bug fix: linking to CantoDict searches should now work properly - Bug fix: editors can now add simplified equivalents to compound words at the time of adding the word. v1.3.10 - June 2007 - web page parser added, CantoDict can now translate entire webpages! - search box tweaked with Javascript to make it more intuitive - some search link bugs fixed - random audio test: minor bugfix on refresh when using levels - example sentence detail view now has popup help on the main sentence v1.3.9 - March 2007 - editors can now (finally) add characters to CantoDict. - new parser now in public beta (as a separate link) v1.3.8 - February 2007 - Cantodict parser code added to detail view of characters and words, allowing Chinese characters and words in descriptions to be automatically hotlinked. v1.3.7 - January 2007 - search split into "simple" and "full", based on feedback that too many irrelevant results were being shown v1.3.6 - January 2007 - level 5 added for compound words - "common formation" flag added for words - Parser "lock duration" now reduced (moreso for Premium Subscribers) v1.3.5 - August 2006 - internal search algorithm improved for "english meaning" searches - imported 200+ new characters - CantoDict parser print template streamlined - hot-linking to CantoDict searches is now possible - searching now has userfriendly links when a possibly incorrect searchtype has been added. - lots of characters with incorrect strokecount of zero corrected - "offensive" icon in character view now displays correctly - dozens of entries marked for deletion by editors have now been removed v1.3.4 - July 2006 - new wildcard searching available in Chinese Word mode - bug fixed in Parser, unknown characters were forcing newlines v1.3.3 - June 2006 - CantoDict Yale romanisation view now an option for registered forum users (beta) - Character view now shows Kangxi radical, along with link to search (beta) - Kangxi Radical searches added, by character and number (beta) v1.3.2 - April 23rd 2006 - New flag: Place Names - New Search options: "Search chinese word by initial / final" (thanks to bybell for the suggestion) v1.3.1 - April 21st 2006 - Dropdown search box options renamed on suggestion of XieChengnuo - BUG FIX: The "Hide Written" / "Hide Spoken" checkboxes were not working! - New flags, "Person's Name" and "Company / Brand Name" v1.3.0 - March 24th 2006 - Simplified equivalents of words can now be added by editors - Parser now copes with simplified characters and words - Word search now copes with simplified characters v1.2.8 - March 18th 2006 - Parser can now be remotely linked to (suggested by The ABC http://theabc.typepad.com/) v1.2.7 - March 15th 2006 - Large CCDICT import of missing characters - bug fix: searching by pinyin didn't return jyutping romanisation - Parser style changes - Character detail pages now have descriptive page titles - Character and Word detail backgrounds were also made pretty several versions ago, but nobody noticed :-( v1.2.6 - March 14th 2006 - Editors can now change characters in words directly - Parser improvements, summary shown at bottom of page, word segments shown visually etc - Searching logic made a bit cleverer when user chooses the wrong search option v1.2.5 - February 13th 2006 - improved view control when hiding or showing pinyin / jyutping - added link to "Customise CantoDict" to main CantoDict header menu - added facility to link to example sentences - improved core parsing code to show parsed words as page output rather than javascript popups v1.2.4 - February 8th 2006 - old bug with words with characters in their short definitions fixed in the Chinese parser / Character popups v1.2.3 - February 3rd 2006 - SafeSearch implemented - Vulgar words now indicated by an icon - Idiom view improved - Search code tidied up v1.2.2 - December 2005 - Fixed Parsing bug with apostrophes in short meanings of words. v1.2.1 - October 30th 2005 - Parsing tool released to split passages of text into words with javascript popups over each recognised compound - Examples use new parsing script with javascript popups v1.2.0 - Minor version bump as I'm quite pleased with the new Chinese Word Parsing. This currently affects the example sentence list, and the example sentences shown at the bottom of word and character detail views. v1.1.1 - Character list now shows Cantonese-only or Mandarin-only characters. - Character list now shows "type" icon of character - formatting for the search box added - Google Frequency list imported from datafile provided by bybell. Google frequency currently shown in Word View. v1.1.0 - Forum account now allows registered users to customise their CantoDict settings. Initially this means that the long planned Mandarin-only or Cantonese-only view is now working. - Premium members of the site can now hide adverts in CantoDict. They also see more example words per character by default etc. v1.0.9 - recently added example list now shows editor notes if they exist - Statistics page now shows correct percentage of characters with simplified forms - new compound word quiz added v1.0.8 - word examples now have individually linked characters to assist learners - style sheet change, added "hover" effect for individual characters that are linked v1.0.7 - jyutping searches for compound words are now possible, eg search for "baak faan" v1.0.6 - examples may now be added easily, without selecting a word first (this is much better!) - examples are now shown below any character or word that appears within the example. v1.0.5 - statistics page now shows word examples that need checking v1.0.4 - search attempts to detect Chinese characters in English/pinyin/jyutping searches and change search tyhpe accordingly (thanks to www.mdbg.net) - initial code to flag certain words as idioms is now in place - separate "flag view" page coded, currently only shows idioms, but new flags will be added v1.0.3 - pinyin search now implemented v1.0.2 - tone numbers now formatted to superscript - search results now show jyutping for results found in compound words v1.0.1 - recently added examples list is now correct - editors now get a convenient "add example for this word" link whenever a new word is added - added editor name next to each word example in detail view v1.0.0 - usage examples added, multiple examples per word - this is a major new feature so I've finally gone to version 1 - show word example totals by level on stats page - added page to show recently added / edited examples - added page to show examples by level (linked from stats page) - better formatting for "unknown usage" and "unsure confidence" flags in Detail view. - added page to show words that lack pinyin or jyutping entries v0.9.6 - pinyin field now shown in character detail view - graphical labels added to distinguish between jyutping and pinyin - character detail view formatting changed to match compound word detail view v0.9.6 - pinyin field added by request for compound words v0.9.5 - stats page now shows % of characters with simplified equivalents - more backend work done to analyse missing characters etc - export script written for Wakan project to enable them to support Cantonese v0.9.4 - simplified characters may now be searched for - simplified characters are now shown in Character List View - all simplified characters can now be shown in Character List View v0.9.3 - support added to show PRC simplified equivalents of characters - fixed bug where most recent edit was never shown in the edit log (it started at the second most recent edit!) - to save bandwidth, character view now only shows a limited number of compounds - it is still possible to see all of them by clicking a link though - statistics page now doesn't count "incomplete" characters towards its totals or trivia stats v0.9.2 - Page to see which words need checking is now accessible via the word list page (top right corner, "words that need checking") - New editors page to show a list of all editors who have worked on the dictionary. Accessed by clicking the number next to the editors label in the statistics page. The actual list of editors is random, there are no favourites here ;-) - Word list may now be ordered by "recently added" as well as "recently edited" v0.9.1 - word detail view now gives HTML encoded codes to output the word (Thanks to Aaron Chan/icycloud for the code) v0.9.0 - initial code to allow editors to add words with variable "confidence" level. This will allow editors who are unsure about entries to add them anyway and have them automatically flagged as being "unsure" - searches for single characters where the user has accidently left the search type to "English" now get automatically routed to the character search v0.8.1 and prior - This Changelog created The dictionary in this version allowed editors to add and update compound words. Notable features include: - search history for compound words that were not found in the dictionary - so editors can add them where appropriate - limited heuristics to recognise jyutping searches incorrectly made using "English search" and auto-change accordingly - dictionary entries are used to drive a dynamic printable test feature and a "word of the moment" which changes every 30 minutes in the forums. - chinese parser added to allow forum and web link code to be generated to link to the dictionary. - the graphical background for compound words' detail view can now be user defined - I like the marble one! - similar character list can be added to by editors and shows characters commonly mistaken for each other. - edits are recorded for all to see, and the editor can add comments explaining their reasoning - efficient and practical (PDA friendly) character and compound word detail views, showing compounds and having hyperlinked characters and words where possible - words are classified according to usage, ie: Spoken Cantonese, Written Chinese or acceptable in both - this feature is unusual if not unique (at a database level). - words are assigned a difficulty "level" based on the subjective experience of learners on the site - this again is possibly a unique feature CantoDict Roadmap / "To do" list v1.?.x - show which words have examples added by means of an icon - facility to output words in graphical format, perhaps even do something fun with Flash... v1.1.x - caching system initially employed for default wordlist view - look into checking and auto-converting searches made with simplified characters...(!) - add classifier field for words and characters that are nouns, to show which classifiers should be used for them - allow editors to add / update characters - ongoing refining of difficulty levels 1-3 - better sorting in word list, eg: by unicode, jyutping etc. - improved hyperlinking between dictionary entries (eg: clickable compounds within definitions) - enable direct webservice lookup from dictionary by unicode charcters instead of entry id number - refined filtering by usage type for wordlist view