posted by dominic.jackson on December 19, 2014 | 1 comments
Hi guys,

I was wondering if anyone was aware of a free popup Chinese to English dictionary plug-in for internet explorer similar to zhongwen for chrome or the firefox plug-in offered on this website. Don't ask why, but I need to start using internet explorer as opposed to chrome and am yet to find anything as good in the way of scroll over pop-up dictionaries.

Thanks!
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trevelyan on December 20, 2014 | reply
Hmm... I don't know of anything for IE myself, and remember the plugin architecture being a big mess when I looked at it, so it wouldn't surprise me if there isn't anything.

That said, there is (or was) a piece of software years ago called "Dr. Eye" that was published by a Taiwanese company and did popups at the level of the operating system in Windows, so it should be usable with Internet Explorer. I am not sure if it is still around, but it was a commercial application instead of a free dictionary tool.