Thanks for all the details hen3ry. We'll try to get it fixed soon! Thanks, Josh
On Jan 11, 10:39 am, hen3ry wrote: > Josh Estelle: > > Thanks for your involvement on this! > > I posted about this issue on 12/31/10, with some followups and > references to prior postings. > > To sum up, this issue: > > --occurs for me in current versions of Safari, Firefox, and (less > often?) Chrome. > > --appears to occur more often with longer, but still quite short, > amounts of "from" text. Very, very roughly: it does not occur with 4 > lines of typical "from" text, and I start to see it at about 25 lines > of "from" text. > > --occurs for me most often with Russian-to-English, but that's what I > use most often recently. I did a quick check of French-to-English and > saw the same issue in at least one browser, suggesting that it could > be language-independent > > Starting from a "bare" URI -- the URL "http://translate.google.com"; > with no query string-- as you suggest does seem to be a good work- > around. But: in some cases, the bare URI is over-written after a brief > pause, presumably by behind-the-scenes scripting. The result is a > "complete" URI containing "from" and "to" languages specified in the > query string. In such cases, the work-around fails. > > Possibly connected: occasional cases recently in which the "from" > text itself appears in the query string. This may have some > connection to the issue occurring more often with longer "from" text. > Or not. > > Generally: I've observed unpredictability in the operation of the > translator recently, over a given session, with different (?) > variations from day-to-day. > > TIA, > > hen3ry > > On Jan 10, 10:19 am, Josh (Google Employee) wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi guys, > > > We are aware of a bug that you guys may be encountering. > > Is it possible that you've bookmarked Google Translate? If so, what > > URL do you start from? > > If you always start fromhttp://translate.google.com/, I believe you > > shouldn't have a problem. But if you have something else bookmarked, > > there may be issues. We're working to resolve them, but if you let me > > know what you have bookmarked, and precisely describe the behavior, > > that'll be terrific. > > > Thanks, > > Josh Estelle > > Senior Software Engineer > > Google Translate > > > On Jan 10, 4:28 am, Richard2011 wrote: > > > > I have been having the same problem with all of my Mac browsers - > > > Safari, Chrome and Firefox. I haven't tried it on Windows yet. > > > > The workaround I discovered by accident is this: > > > - Paste the text and press Translate > > > - When it disappears, press Translate again with an empty box > > > - Then paste the text and Translate again and it should work from > > > that point on... > > > > I have no idea why this works - maybe there's a shorter way of doing > > > the same thing - but at least it works. > > > > Richard > > > > On Dec 29 2010, 4:15 pm, pangolin19 wrote: > > > > > I am having trouble using Google translate for Russian-English > > > > translation inSafari. If I input more than a paragraph, the > > > > transation appears for an instant then I am returned a blank translate > > > > box. Englsh-Russian works fine, and I don't have this problem with > > > > Chrome. This is a new issue; I was able to useSafariwith no problems > > > > a few months ago. I am usingSafari5.0.3. I have tried clearing the > > > > cache and cookies. Anyone have any suggestions? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general?hl=en.
