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7 Replies ・ Started by Lisured at 2014-01-06 01:07:01 UTC ・ Last reply by Kimtaro Admin at 2014-01-17 08:11:31 UTC

Stroke order

Hi, sorry if it was mentioned before (I couldn't find forum search) but does the new jisho have stoke orders?

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Kimtaro Admin at 2014-01-06 10:07:24 UTC

Yes, there is stroke order videos on the kanji detail pages. For example: http://beta.jisho.org/search/字%20%23kanji

You should be able to see a play button under the large kanji on the left. Clicking that will display the stroke order video. Right now the default speed is a little fast, but you can click on the gear in the bottom right of the video to make it slower.

If you can't see the stroke order video under the kanji to the left, let me know what browser you are using. If so there's something wrong that I need to investigate :)

(And no, there's no forum search yet, sorry!)

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SenseiHanzo at 2014-01-07 05:03:06 UTC

I was actually just thinking of making a thread about this. Personally, I prefer the "static" stroke order view that the old Jisho had. For short strokes, it can be hard to parse what's going on in video format since there's barely any time before it moves on to the next stroke. I suppose it takes up more screen space to have a separate image for each stroke, but I like to be able to look at any step I want without having to worry about dealing with a video.

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danz at 2014-01-07 23:40:38 UTC

The kanji stroke order video seems to have loading issues for me too, when I first clicked that link it took maybe 4 seconds to load the video but now when I reloaded the page the video just took 33 seconds to appear. It doesn't seem to appear at all for me on the http://beta.jisho.org/search/%E5%92%8C%20%23kanji page.

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SenseiHanzo at 2014-01-08 05:11:57 UTC

@danz: The video loads for me just fine on that page. Does it consistently not appear on that page for you?

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danz at 2014-01-09 02:30:30 UTC

It seems fairly consistent now, it wasn't yesterday though.

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Lisured at 2014-01-10 13:07:26 UTC

I just found it was blocked by NoScript extension. The animation is pretty neat.

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Kimtaro Admin at 2014-01-17 08:11:31 UTC

The video is a bit of an experiment at this point. I know that it's got some quirks right now, like showing short strokes far too quickly, and some loading issues. But I'd like to try and work those issues out and see how good it can get.

Stroke order images could still be an option though, so they might come back as a compliment to the video.

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