0.7.2
“Ask on the web” now opens somewhere reachable from mainland China, and a dictionary entry no longer loses its styling on Windows machines whose WebView2 stopped updating.
Added
- aalookup.com offers the Android build. It was published with every release and listed nowhere, so the only way to a first copy was GitHub — which left the updater inside it with no way for anyone to arrive.
Fixed
- Windows On a Windows machine whose WebView2 had stopped updating, a dictionary entry arrived with none of the publisher's own styling or scripts while the rest of the app looked fine. Installing this version updates WebView2 when it is too old to load them.
- An Android phone visiting the download page was recommended the macOS installer. The page guessed at iPad — which reports itself as a Mac with a touch screen — before reading the browser's own statement of which system it was.
Changed
- “Ask on the web” opened Google's AI mode, which is not reachable from mainland China — and the shipped explanation language is Simplified Chinese, so for the people it was aimed at it was a button that timed out. It now opens Sogou's AI mode, with Metaso, Quark and Baidu Wenxin alongside it in the presets. A web address you chose yourself is left exactly as you left it, Google included.
- A new installation now sends the sentence around the word to that site, not just the word on its own, because the sentence is the whole reason to ask a model rather than a dictionary. If you have used AALookup before, this setting is left exactly where you had it — an existing choice of “no” is indistinguishable from an untouched one, and guessing would send text somebody had withheld.
- The Android build now requires Android 11. It could be installed on Android 7 before, several versions below where its own file handling starts working, so it could open and then fail to read a dictionary.