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Possibility of using dictionary app to connect to an online dictionary site.

Hi guys,


Apple dictionary app can connect to wiki site and shows the result in right style. It's there ways to develop an online dictionary fuctionary to support apple dictionary or just like the present one to the dictionary?

Posted on Dec 31, 2012 5:41 AM

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Dec 31, 2012 11:18 AM in response to Vobvop

Apple's Wikipedia integration is custom code just for that purpose. You can download and play with the Dictionary Development Kit that is available in one of the supplementary Xcode downloads. It does not support any online functionality directly.


In theory, you might be able to create a local index of keywords and load the content via iframes in static XHTML. I haven't tried that but it might be possible.

Possibility of using dictionary app to connect to an online dictionary site.

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