Refine Page Translation
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while the new addition of translation websites without google or other extentions, the current implementation has room for improvements.
As of now users who have enabled this feature will have to dismiss a popup whenever a site is visited that is not the browser's display language. This is a disrupting and bothersome experience.
Another option is needed for this site translation to work as intended, as of now the translator seems to look for URL paramenters. This will prevent content from being translated.
The best example for this is booth.pm/en
Thus it is needed that users can tell the translator that the current website is in another language than the browser think it is. This was possible on early implementations of the feature on Vivaldi Mobile
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@chillz said in Refine Page Translation:
As of now users who have enabled this feature will have to dismiss a popup whenever a site is visited that is not the browser's display language. This is a disrupting and bothersome experience.
You can disable that popup by unselecting the setting to always propose translations. You can still access the popup by clicking the translation icon in the address bar...
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@PAULOAGUIA thank you for the heads up regarding the pop
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@chillz said in Refine Page Translation:
Would you agree on the other part on this feature request?
Sorry for ignoring the rest...
I think the end part of your post you're asking the same thing as this other feature request? https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/61900/translate-text-selected-in-browser
I didn't understand the part about the URL parameters...
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I think the end part of your post you're asking the same thing as this other feature request? https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/61900/translate-text-selected-in-browser
it is semi related, yes but I don't want to select text, just force the translating tool to recognize the website as another language.
I'm sure you're familiar /de-de/ /en-gb/ /en-us/ in URLs these will usually just redirect you to the same page but in a different language.
Now if I pick booth.pm again as an example, which is a Japanese site I will get the whole page translated to whatever language my browser uses. But if I visit booth.pm/en vivaldi thinks the whole page is in English even if that's not the case.
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@chillz said in Refine Page Translation:
I'm sure you're familiar /de-de/ /en-gb/ /en-us/ in URLs these will usually just redirect you to the same page but in a different language.
Now if I pick booth.pm again as an example, which is a Japanese site I will get the whole page translated to whatever language my browser uses. But if I visit booth.pm/en vivaldi thinks the whole page is in English even if that's not the case.Ah, I see now what you mean.
I believe Vivaldi uses the HTTP Header Content-Language instead of URL hints. Which is why it proposes translation even for pages in websites that don't support multiple languages. They often end up correlating into a URL difference like the one you described, yes, but that usually doesn't have any impact other than guaranteeing the user is always sent the page for that language, doesn't mean anything per se...