Yes, please! There were a couple of Chrome extensions that provided
translations of highlighted text but Chrome 5 seems to have broken
them. This is a much-needed feature.
On Dec 22 2009, 3:34 pm, Michael Allen wrote:
> Google translate is great for translating a foreign language page, but
> I completely expected something a little better from the translate
> browser extension. Where is the "translate selected text" option in
> thecontextmenus etc?
>
> I do not frequent too many foreign language sites .. but when I do,
> google translate is great .. I do however have an extended family who
> are spanish and it is a pain in the butt to have to copy their text,
> go to translate.google.com and translate it. (granted: that is far
> easier than any other option I had prior, but yes, I am getting
> spoiled :D )
>
> What would be infinitely helpful is if there was a way you could right
> click on some selected text (or if the translate API has a way to auto-
> detect a language as being foreign and detect the language itself ..
> you could just auto-translate on selection rather than just a right
> click option) and have that text be translated right then and there.
>
> There are a bunch of websites out there that are multi-lingual, and
> have diverse communities of people posting in them with various
> languages. This discussion group is one of them; which boggles my
> mind. How does this discussion group exist and such a feature as I
> have explained does not yet exist?! Or maybe it does, and I just
> haven't uncovered it yet.
>
> Thanks for your time!
>
> Michael A. Allen
