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Really clever, and subtle news web page feature
I ran across this feature on a New York Times web page completely by accident.
I was going to look up a word on the page by copying it to Google, but I didn't need to go off site or copy.
Go to an article and highlight a word. A small question mark will pop up. If you click on that it pops up a definition.
Here is a random page to try it on: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/sc...ml?ref=science
I think this is a fine example of web programming, particularly for a news site, but as far as I can tell you have to discover it by accident.
Talk about holding your light under a bushel.
I was going to look up a word on the page by copying it to Google, but I didn't need to go off site or copy.
Go to an article and highlight a word. A small question mark will pop up. If you click on that it pops up a definition.
Here is a random page to try it on: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/sc...ml?ref=science
I think this is a fine example of web programming, particularly for a news site, but as far as I can tell you have to discover it by accident.
Talk about holding your light under a bushel.