custom orders for joyo kanji views

[rshiplett]

I want to build an app that lets the user have a few different ways of running through some or all of the jōyō kanji.

I have a few web pages with variant views ... the simplest is at http://www.aule-browser.com/kanji/kanjidic2-joyo-indexed-single-curl.html - but it requires the Curl Surge RTE browser plugin from www.curl.com

For Android and iOS I will generate HTML5 + JavaScript from the Curl Caede mobile development platfor.

Suggestions for ordering such kanji lists welcome ( I tend to prefer meaningful groupings over radicals, for example ).

I the case of radicals, there are more subtle approaches than just lumping them together with their cognates. Sometimes I like to see the radical not in the next item, but on the 5th, 6th or 7th item following. More a weave than a list.

Ideas ? Have you tried the page in the link above ? The plugin is very safe and quite easy to install. Linux seems to work best with Curl running in Firefox. Any of these can be taken out of the browser and run as desktop app's with minimal effort (i.e. run when you are off-line.)

For now all are free ... I will likely have an alternate "pay-for-deluxe" as Android and iPad app's. Customizable mnemonics is likely what I will go for there ... oops, there's that feral cat outa the bag agin ! Ornery as a polecat !

[rshiplett]

I should have listed some plain HTML custom views of joyo kanji that I am working on:

http://www.aule-browser.com/kanji/kanjidic2-joyo.html is one such.

Another HTML-only page is http://www.aule-browser.com/kanji/kanjidic2-joyo-hz-3.html

That page has an alternate at http://www.aule-browser.com/kanji/kanjidic2-joyo-hz-2.html

and I would expect to see a "-4" version soon ...

I copy it to my own machine and then re-order the entries to my liking - not so much "kanji by content" but by my own associations - sometimes a radical (bushu) - sometimes by meaning - sometimes by my own mnemonics.

Soon I may try to break down 2000 basic kanji over a few HTML pages - but better yet would be an app that would allow users to choose their own approach.

Using Curl with CSPD (client-side persistent data) instead of HTML is an easy route, although more people are used to JavaScript solutions ... but no Java applets will be offered ! (Just imagine trying to offer this custom view feature as an Adobe "Flash" solution ... ) Of course, on the server-side there is PHP and MySQL as the usual route. My personal fave novel server approach is using the Seaside framework for Smalltalk.

My own local page on this laptop links to en.wiktionary.org pages such as 単 has 単位 as a link to http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%8D%98%E4%BD%8D largely because the sidebar of that WK page itself has a link to the Japanese WK page for 単位

Ideas welcome ... and I am open to building web pages on request,time and energy permitting.