These are special-purpose pop-ups for accessing standard definitions. A single dictionary is used for the whole site. It can actually be loaded & viewed by students as a dictionary. However, it also used as the source of the definition pop-ups.
The definitions are kept in a page called dictionary.htm
which
is normally located in the root directory and which is loaded into a hidden
frame in the frameset.
Currently uses pop-up styles, vis
The definition link is written dynamically into the document at the point of invocation.
These two routines are an alternative to the insertDefLink routine. The only difference is that the startDefLink function is invoked before the link text and the endLink after it. No link argument is used because the link text is already on the page between the two calls marking the beginning and ending of the link.
The advantage of definitions is that standard concepts like and are available all over the site. While they are just pop-ups authors do not have to write the actual pop-up since it is found in the standard dctionary.
Definition style is controlled by the class .definition
in the style sheets and definition links by .deflink
.