ひらがなナビィ

Japanese children's browser by Fujitsu Learning Media on the Internet Explorer component: it adds furigana to kanji not yet learned at the chosen school grade (or replaces everything with hiragana, or switches to rōmaji for foreign learners), summarizes pages and blocks sites containing harmful words.

Facts

Developer

Fujitsu Learning Media (with the IPA)

Website

web.archive.org

Engine

Trident

Platforms

Windows

Details

Free v0.91 (Apr. 2000), shareware v2-1 (2001), v3 (Apr. 2003, automatic summaries), free “ひらがな・なびぃ” (Mar. 2008, Windows 2000/XP)

Popularity

38/100 — Estimate: Fujitsu educational software (free, then shareware at ¥3,500–4,000, then free again in 2008), ≈20k users

Key versions

1. Apr. 27, 2000
   0.91TridentFujitsu Learning Media children's browser adding furigana to the kanji of web pages; free.[1]
2. 2001
   2-1Version 2-1, sold as shareware, with blocking of harmful sites.[2]
3. Apr. 7, 2003
   3Automatic page summaries and display of Word and Ichitaro documents.[3]
4. Mar. 10, 2008
   —Free edition “ひらがな・なびぃ”, without Word and Ichitaro document display.[4]

Version sources: [1] forest.watch.impress.co.jp, [2] forest.watch.impress.co.jp, [3] forest.watch.impress.co.jp, [4] forest.watch.impress.co.jp

Sources

1. https://forest.watch.impress.co.jp/article/2000/05/09/hiragananaviiy.html
2. https://forest.watch.impress.co.jp/article/2001/06/19/webbrowser.html
3. https://forest.watch.impress.co.jp/article/2003/04/07/hiragananaviiy3.html
4. https://forest.watch.impress.co.jp/article/2008/03/10/hiragananavifree.html