Welcome to Fora Plain Reader, the linguist's dedicated browser & featured dictionary.
Fora is a multilingual dictionary featuring embedded browser, rapid dictionary lookup, dictionary management, and text annotation for both internal and external viewing.
Fora uses inline tooltips to display dictionary results and never suspends reading/browsing activity by using well-tailored tooltips right around the word looked up.
Whether you are a professional translator, a student doing homework or a web surfer looking for new horizons, this kind of interaction will greatly help you communicate in languages which isn't your native and will enhance your productivity.
Fora can be viewed as a tool that virtually converts every document (or website) to an interactive one that has a complete glossary.
The name Fora is an acronym derived from "Foreign Reader's Aid". "Plain" reflects that no machine work is involved towards translation, it simply provides word-to-word translation.
Rationale behind application
When the number of words in a paragraph that which you don't know
meaning exceeds about approx. 20% of the total, crawling regular
dictionaries becomes increasingly tiring, even infeasible, and a
need to better utilize the computer's graphical user
interfaces (e.g. tooltips) and interaction hardware (e.g. mouse), arises.
Fora uses tooltip-like customized pop-ups to display dictionary
results.
The tooltips are controlled completely with trivial mouse-clicks.
While you can use Tray mode to lookup from every application, Fora's
principal usage is not designed for a "general-purpose" contextual
dictionary, but a reading tool that works exclusively with web based
documents. Since most documents can be converted to a web-based one
(e.g. html), workspace is not limited to html files or the web.