Thanks for the feedback guys, we're definitely looking into this.
Best,
Josh
On Feb 12, 4:42 am, John McConnochie wrote:
> 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
