Enhance the translate feature

[winstonma]

Love the einkbro on my Onyx Boox Nova

To me, the current translated page is not user friendly. I am not sure if my proposed method would improve the user-friendliness of the result. Please use the desktop browser to test the procedure first.

Let me explain my idea using an example https://stratechery.com/2021/regulators-and-reality/ as an example.

1. Go to the translated URL: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=en&tl=en&u=https://stratechery.com/2021/regulators-and-reality/
2. Open browser's developer console, and then a link will be returned while executing the following command:

  document.getElementById("contentframe").children[0].src

3. Open the browser with the above link obtained in step 2

I think this way the translated page looks much better. But of coz on step 1 you need to set the correct sl and tl parameters. I am not sure what is the best way to provide the sl and tl parameters for the user to select. But the result seems better.

[winstonma]

It seems to me that the above steps are overrated. Just checked the link and it seems to me that there is a pattern.

https://stratechery-com.translate.goog/2021/regulators-and-reality/?_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=ajax,elem

It seems to me that there is a general pattern

1. For the domain name, just replace . with -, then add .translate.goog
2. At the end, add ?_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=ajax,elem, the parameter _x_tr_sl is the source language and _x_tr_tl is the translated language

[plateaukao]

@winstonma Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, it can get better results from the url you provided. I will modify the feature to adopt this way so that it can be more elegant.

Also, I added a button on vertical control bars, so that target language can be changed by user, and long press close button to hide all translation controls. :)

[winstonma]

@plateaukao really look forward to the new feature 😀

[winstonma]

The feature is implemented in v8.15.0 onwards. You could select different translate services by holding the translate button.