Lookup enabled for textareas and textboxes

I read some of the comments on addons.mozilla.org and there where some interesting feature requests there.

The first priority was the language issues, which I understand is an important feature. I too have a need for looking up both English and Norwegian word, so I am too very happy this feature is in place.

Secondly was a feature I hadn't thought of, which was that the extension couldn't lookup word inside a textarea or textbox. So I sat down on a hot Sunday evening here in Oslo and thought I'd give it a shot.

Getting the WLE to lookup inside a other controls wasn't as easy as I'd hoped. You couldn't just use the gContextMenu.isTextSelected. Some googling later I discovered the document.commandDispatcher.focusedElement property and then everything was pretty straight forward.

Tags: firefox+extension wikipedia+lookup+extension