Josh, I'm following ya. But I still miss that vertical orientation option. ;)
On Jan 13, 10:29 am, Josh (Google Employee) wrote: > Hi Cake, > > This is definitely something we've considered, and still consider. > However, one thing we've learned at Google is very, very few users > will actually use settings pages like that. So we generally would > rather have a single, high-quality experience for all our users, > rather than spending a lot of time on features that only a very small > number of users turn on in settings. > > We have a large, diverse set of users, so you can imagine it's hard to > please everyone all the time – but we'll keep doing our best trying > to! And if having settings to turn certain features on / off is the > best way to do that, we'll certainly do it. But so far we believe we > can more effectively keep improving the product with a single > interface for everyone. > > Thanks all, > Josh > > On Jan 13, 8:57 am, Cake Hebenstreit wrote: > > > > > > > > > I really like the highlighting feature. But, it appears there are a > > few that don't like it. > > > I still wish that I could change the page orientation to vertical. > > So, these two issues got me thinking. What if there was a "Translate > > Settings" just like Google.com has "Search Settings" and Gmail has a > > Settings, and so forth. I'm sure there are many useful options that > > could come from a Translate Settings page. And, maybe we could see > > Labs for Translate! :D What do you guys think? > > > On Jan 12, 10:18 pm, Josh (Google Employee) wrote: > > > > Hi TSR, > > > > If you can frame your feedback a little more constructively, I'd be > > > happy to discuss this new feature with you, and help find any problems > > > it may have caused. > > > > Regarding performance, we test and measure the performance every time > > > we make a change, and we have not been able to find any degradation of > > > performance with this feature. That being said, sometimes there are > > > edge cases we don't catch. Can you let me know what browser you're > > > using, and any more detail about what feels sluggish to you? and when > > > it is unresponsive? > > > > As for selecting text, we paid very close attention to this issue when > > > adding this feature, and we believe you should be able to select text > > > as before, but we realize the color / styling of some of our > > > highlighting is confusing to users. We have some plans for fixing and > > > improving this and should get them out soon. If you can give some > > > specific feedback on precise things that are difficult to do right > > > now, we'll happily look closely at those issues and do our best to fix > > > them. > > > > Best, > > > Josh Estelle > > > Senior Software Engineer > > > Google Translate > > > > On Jan 12, 3:28 pm, TSR wrote: > > > > > HI GOOGLE ! > > > > Selecting the result (translated text) or part of it has become > > > > RETARDINGLY hard because of the new highlighting system. > > > > > Does no one ever need to copy some translated text? I'm most surprised > > > > this issue hasn't come up besides this completely ignored thread. > > > > This new issue thanks to your "enhancement" just drives me completely > > > > f****** nuts. (it's a trend) > > > > > Have a good day, awesome support, thank you! > > > > > On Dec 26 2010, 6:33 am, TSR wrote: > > > > > > Ah! What a joy to have yet another new "feature" forced on me by > > > > > Google, fantastic! > > > > > > It's been a while after Instant Preview, I didn't know when to expect > > > > > thenextbullshitfrom Google, but here it is, it didn't take long! > > > > > > So I've just been trying to translate some text and Google Translate > > > > > immediately felt sluggish and unresponsive.. but of course, a new > > > > > feature, bravo!! :D > > > > > > >>>>> Please put an option somewhere to disable this retarded new > > > > > >>>>> automatic highlighting! <<<<<< > > > > > > Thank you so much in advance Google, I'm sure you're going to listen > > > > > to your users as usual and implement that "turn off highlighting" > > > > > option in the blink of an eye as usual, it's gonna be beautiful. > > > > > > /sarcasm -- 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.
