How to Add WebGlossary.info as a Search Engine in Your Browser
Published on DecĀ 3, 2024, filed under development (feed). (Share this on Mastodon orĀ Bluesky?)
WebGlossary.info is the online version of the living ebook, The Web Development Glossary.
As itās the by far largest glossary for web developmentĀ *, it can be handy to look up terms āon the go.ā
While you can always bookmark WebGlossary.info or type in its address, thereās now also an (albeit a little hacky) alternative:
Add WebGlossary.info to your browserās search engines, by routing search terms through āhttps://webglossary.info/search/%sā.
In Chrome, Edge, Vivaldi, and other Chromium-based browsers, you can do this by navigating to your browserās settings, then to its search configuration. (In Chrome, thatās under āchrome://settings/searchā; in Vivaldi, itās under āvivaldi:settings/search/ā.)
There, you can add WebGlossary.info as another search option, using the URL āhttps://webglossary.info/search/%sā (if your browser uses another placeholder for the search term, replace ā%sā accordingly).
Hereās how I set it up in Chrome, when testing:
And thatās itānow, if you need to look up a development term, you can type in āwg termā in your address bar (or however you named your shortcut), get its meaning, and dive in further.
WebGlossary.info doesnāt ask for or store any personal information. All that would happen here is that entries may show up in the anonymized server logs. For more details, see WebGlossary.infoās legal notice. For details on what Google, who provides the search engine the WebGlossary.info search is based on, stores, review Googleās privacy policy.
* Iām careful about statements like this as I could always err, also in this case. But from what I know, almost five years after releasing the first edition of the glossary, thereās nothing even closeāthe MDN glossary may be the second-largest, but it trails by a few thousand terms.
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