What is annoing Google Translate in post pages?
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Serge D
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Posted: Thu, 2010-09-02 23:21
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When I go to see individual post threads very annoing Google Translate pops up. |
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Popups? There's a drop down added to every page to make translating these pages into different languages easier. Helps us help the German forum better as well as those few other posts that are not in English.
What browser are you using?
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IE 8, yes there is toolbar pop up
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I see it from my Mac as well, on both Safari and Firefox.
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When I requested this feature I was only referring to the translation selector/dropdown, the toolbar is annoying.
Sorry guys, its my fault(I actually thought my request was ignored)
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Hrm. I'm not seeing it, but perhaps that's because my default language is set to English and the forum is mostly English? What browser language settings do you guys have in your browser?
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This is all I include in my site's footer, I get the selector but it does not invoke the toolbar:
<div id="google_translate_element"></div> <script> function googleTranslateElementInit(){ new google.translate.TranslateElement({ pageLanguage: 'en' }, 'google_translate_element'); } </script> <script src="http://translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit"></script>Thanks Bharat BTW
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I have only one language installed in the system
as you can see from screenshot, toolbar is set to english.
Itried to click "Turn off", but it did not help...
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Same here. I can turn it of, but it returns. Probably need (a) google cookie(s) to keep it from appearing.
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I'm happy to tweak the site in any way that makes it useful to you guys. Should I turn off the translate box?
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@Bharat, if the code you're using is more then I posted above, could you cut it back
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It's pretty much what you pasted. I added Google Analytics tracking and the simple layout, but otherwise nothing special.
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Looks like we don't have the pageLanguage: 'en' for the google.translate.TranslateElement part of the code. I noticed that is in the code by default for the wizard they have here: http://translate.google.com/translate_tools
Haven't done extensive testing here, just what I've observed in 3 different browsers:
Looks like Chrome (a Google product) doesn't display that toolbar. IE doesn't for me, but I also have the Google toolbar installed there, Firefox does but I don't have the Google toolbar installed there. But in IE, even with the Google toolbar installed I do see annoying tooltips on hovering over text.
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IE 8 without GT does show the translate toolbar
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If I specify "pageLanguage: 'en'" then won't it show "English" as an option in the dropdown. That seems like it defeats the purpose of the box altogether. By not specifying the page language, it guesses the language.
I agree -- in Firefox it's pretty annoying! Hum.
Ok, well I'm going to ask around and see if I can figure out what's going on here. This might take a few days. In the meantime, would you like me to turn off the feature?
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Even if your browser's default is not en? - very strange.
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Ok, well let's find out!
I added "pageLanguage: 'en'" to the widget -- let me know if that improves the situation.
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Oh, yeah that's bad.
I went to an international forum and there was no option for me to translate to english.
So while playing around I hit bulgarian and now I'm stuck in a non-english on all pages.
Sorry, I did not think this would be so much trouble and did not want intend on wasting your time.
I guess I can ignore the toolbar in firefox.
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Hm. Ok, choices:
1) I can remove the block
2) People can live with it
If you're using Chrome, when you go to a page you can right click and choose "Translate to English" on any page that it recognizes as not English. So I think we have a workaround for #1 above, but not #2. So I'm going to get rid of the widget for now. I'll bring it back later if folks know of a way to fix it.
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