[chromium-dev] Re: [extensions] Text translate API proposal

2009-06-02 Thread Mohamed Mansour
Why not just rename textTranslate to textProcess or something in that fashion. This feature could be used in other services rather than translation. -- Mohamed Mansour On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Erik Kay erik...@chromium.org wrote: Similar to the translate, this feature could be used to

[chromium-dev] Re: [extensions] Text translate API proposal

2009-06-01 Thread Evan Martin
This feels kinda one-off-y to me. Is there any use of this *other* than running through Google Translate? I worry about adding a lot of API surface area for little gain. On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Aaron Boodman a...@chromium.org wrote: Some people have expressed interest in

[chromium-dev] Re: [extensions] Text translate API proposal

2009-06-01 Thread Aaron Boodman
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Evan Martin e...@chromium.org wrote: This feels kinda one-off-y to me.  Is there any use of this *other* than running through Google Translate?  I worry about adding a lot of API surface area for little gain. That is one of the things I was concerned about

[chromium-dev] Re: [extensions] Text translate API proposal

2009-06-01 Thread Erik Kay
Similar to the translate, this feature could be used to support sites that use non-standard character set / font combinations (some indic websites depend on downloadable fonts and custom character sets). Also, if the API allowed styling of the text as opposed to just replacing it, then I could

[chromium-dev] Re: [extensions] Text translate API proposal

2009-06-01 Thread Alex Russell
On Jun 1, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Erik Kay wrote: Similar to the translate, this feature could be used to support sites that use non-standard character set / font combinations (some indic websites depend on downloadable fonts and custom character sets). Also, if the API allowed styling of

[chromium-dev] Re: [extensions] Text translate API proposal

2009-06-01 Thread Alex Russell
I understand the proposal, and am suggesting that having content scripts might be a saner thing to do if they need to do less custom stuff to get the job done. The API that locates the stuff could be separate, but the transformation code feels like a natural content- script task and one