Bug 2443 - NDS and satni.org available directly in MS Office, including online and on pads
Summary: NDS and satni.org available directly in MS Office, including online and on pads
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Dictionaries
Classification: Unclassified
Component: NDS (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P5 - Later enhancement
Assignee: Chiara Argese
URL: https://dev.office.com/docs/add-ins/w...
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Depends on: 2444
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Reported: 2017-11-15 13:05 CET by Sjur Nørstebø Moshagen
Modified: 2018-05-30 15:45 CEST (History)
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Description Sjur Nørstebø Moshagen 2017-11-15 13:05:56 CET 
See the URL provided. There is (and has been for a time) an API to access and display web-based content directly within MS Office.

We should build a dictionary lookup tool that covers all our dictionaries (including satni.org) and make the lookup available directly in Office.

Tino Didriksen has plans to do something similar for spellers, especially targetting the platforms with no direct speller support from MS (iPads, Macs).

We can even extend this to provide other web-based services.

This relies on us getting the REST API done.

Note that this API requires data in XML/HTML, not json.
Comment 1 Sjur Nørstebø Moshagen 2018-05-30 15:18:27 CEST 
This is now part of the Divvun public tender spec for the rewritten dictionary web app (aka satni.org 2.0):

https://github.com/divvun/DivvunPublicTenders/blob/master/WebDict.md