Question to cell phone users: how to download DictionaryForMIDs from internet ?

[Gert]

Dear cell phone users,

I'd like to know what you think about downloading DictionaryForMIDs with your cell phone from the internet ?

In the old days it was rare that people downloaded applications with their cell phones from the internet, because often the telecon companies did have ridiculously high prices on data transfer (only a very little percentage of cell phone users had an internet flat rate on their cell phones). So people downloaded the applications on their PC and installed them from there on the PC.

Nowadays data flat rates are becoming more and more common also for normal cell phone users. This allows more convenient download directly from the cell phone.

For downloading DictionaryForMIDs with a cell phone, what would be a convenient way to do this ? For example, would you want that all DictionaryForMIDs dictionaries are available from the cell phone manufacturer's 'app store'. I.e. from the Nokia app store, the Samsung one, the {put your manufacturer there} app store ?

Or, would you like to have a dictionary download page similar as http://dictionarymid.sourceforge.net/dict.html, but better adapted to cell phones ? That means making something like a dictmobile.html where people can directly install the Jad/Jar-files (instead of first downloading a zip file).

Or should all the DictionaryForMIDs dictionaries be downloadable from one application hoster, such as phoload.com or getjar.com.

Or maybe any other idea ?

Just let me know your viewpoint on this !

Regards,
Ger

[jn0101]

Or, would you like to have a dictionary download page similar as http://dictionarymid.sourceforge.net/dict.html, but better adapted to cell phones ? That means making something like a dictmobile.html where people can directly install the Jad/Jar-files (instead of first downloading a zip file).

+1 for making JAR and JADs available directly, as this would allow people to try out the dictionaries the and application from their desktop web browsers, before they install on their phone.

Note that you have to set up a MIME-type for JAD on the web server before it works.

Here are some demos, using the Java Phone Emulator from http://microemu.org.

Try this:
Open emulator at http://microemu.org/microemu-webstart/index.html
Open a web page with links to a DfM  http://javabog.dk/filer/paroj/eo-en/ and drag JAD file to it.

Or this direct link - which will web start Microemu and instruct it to download DfM with a dictionary, ready to use:
http://microemu.org/webstart/javabog.dk/filer/paroj/eo-en/DictionaryForMIDs_eo-en_lernu.jnlp

Its also available as applets:
http://javabog.dk/filer/paroj/apleto/provi_en_apleto.html

Or should all the DictionaryForMIDs dictionaries be downloadable from one application hoster, such as phoload.com or getjar.com.

This would also be cool.

[axin]

Or, would you like to have a dictionary download page similar as http://dictionarymid.sourceforge.net/dict.html, but better adapted to cell phones ? That means making something like a dictmobile.html where people can directly install the Jad/Jar-files (instead of first downloading a zip file).

+1 for making JAR and JADs available directly, as this would allow people to try out the dictionaries the and application from their desktop web browsers, before they install on their phone

+1: this would also speed up installation on Android (about 2x for larger dictionaries)

When this is done (so we have a central place with all the dictionaries in JAR/JAD), maybe we can get some people to help and regularly publish the dictionaries to phoload.com or getjar.com. It would be as easy as downloading and uploading them...

Achim