Etymology Extension Used AI
Firefox extension that let's you check etymology of the selected word. Just select the word, right-click, and choose "Check etymology of the selected word" from context menu. Uses Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary api.
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It's finished or at least should be. I was able to communicate between background script and page via hash in url(which might not be the best method but it works, and the data passed isn't exactly a secret). The only other thing, which posed some problems was parsing tokens used by dictionary. It was rather simple but i needed AI's help with regex and figuring out that String.prototype.replaceAll() does in fact support callback functions. The UI isn't the prettiest, but design isn't my strongest suit, but still, I'm quite satisfied with how it all turned out.
i did most of the work regarding getting the data and parsing it. unfortunately as far as i was able to tell, firefox doesn't allow setting cookies for a url different than the one loaded, so that's something i might need to work on, other than that i need to write structure of page presenting the data
