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Yahoo! update?, replied by lsloan

lsloan — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:31:55 +0000

A while ago Yahoo! took over the care and feeding of the babelfish. It would be great to see an update of this script to work with that service. Right now the script just displays a snippet of HTML instead of a translation.

Archived Comments, replied by Szilard

Szilard — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 12:13:59 +0000

Some mismatchs in my previous post:

"I am grabbing the first paragraph tag of the bodyContent-div tag", "[...]which a DOMParser() will traverse within every dictionary site", "[...]did not contact you before". Did I mentioned Murphy's law. Is that apostroph a catastrophe?

Archived Comments, replied by Szilard

Szilard — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 12:04:00 +0000

Hallo, if the father of this script is interested in a version of a mod of babel mousish, that is able to select the src- and dest-languages with the mouse (config dialog in b.m-style), and adds 5 real dictionary (wikipedia, websters...you can add infinite in a simple array), and gives b.m. an expandable localization of application texts, then I believe he has got to give me the permission, to put it on my webspace. Only the wikipedia dictionary is working to 100% (with some minor dropouts), because the dom-parsing subsequent to the http-request to wikipedia has got to be individual for every dictionary. For example: I am grabbing the first

-tag of the

"bodyContent". This paragraph is the default intro text of every wiki article. To accomplish this, nearly 37 lines of code (I am spaghetti all the time) are needed. Using this nowhere street, four more dictionaries would lead to a total of 165 lines. So I approach it another way: I'll rush my troops of wheightwatchers and enforce a diet upon it. Right now I am trying to put something like "document.body.bodyContent.p[0]", to every array-field of the dicts-Array, which a DOMParser() will traverse. Of course the additional array-field is a heck of different for every dictionary. So I did not tested it, nor did the whole code. So if you are impatient, than everything you'll see up to now are the above mentioned adds and wikipedia ger/eng. I could understand if you don't want to answer at all, because I did the whole thing myself and did not contact you berore. Murphy's law is demanding, that you allready got the whole code lurking in your ./home/homer/coding folder. And are about to release it. Than do yourself a favor and release it. I would like to see it myself. I did the mod for my own pleasure. Sorry for this long and surely grammatically flawed blabbering. I am little bit unproficient and a little bit german. Szilard

Archived Comments, replied by Herr Sin

Herr Sin — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:18:44 +0000

When editing (not a new one) a post in a vBulletin Forum it enter a "xcde > fr" in the first line.

My config is from German to French.

Archived Comments, replied by Herr Sin

Herr Sin — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:35:07 +0000

Fantastic

Archived Comments, replied by cigno5.5

cigno5.5 — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 07:57:36 +0000

hi ed! i'm happy that you like my script...but remember that babelfish's translation doesn't a perfect tool. Italian is a complex language, for example if I translate an english page to italian i can't understand the 50% of the text!!

Archived Comments, replied by ed

ed — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 08:12:32 +0000

this is awesome!! i'm learning Italian and very keen to be fluent in it as i think it's a very beautiful language, and this is helping me in a great way. grazie! :)

Archived Comments, replied by ycc2106

ycc2106 — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 11:27:35 +0000

Thanks for your reply, I had the same kind of problem with Clipmarks extension, maybe that was mac too, and the dev didn't know about it.

Archived Comments, replied by cigno5.5

cigno5.5 — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 08:55:53 +0000

thank you, totti, for compliments.
hi, ycc2106, i'm sorry but i can't resolve no one of yours problems. I'm not a apple user and i don't know anything of macos! About the problem with blogger, i did some tests but mousish seems don't work if the mousish div isn't injected into current document. However i'll try to take a look to solve this problem!

Archived Comments, replied by Totti

Totti — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 07:26:08 +0000

really great work - thanks!

Archived Comments, replied by ycc2106

ycc2106 — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 05:39:26 +0000

Is it possble the alt key is different for macs?

Archived Comments, replied by ycc2106

ycc2106 — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 05:38:04 +0000

Can't get it to work, and it make errors when I edit a post in Blogger because it add a mousish div at the top.

Archived Comments, replied by cigno5.5

cigno5.5 — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 05:20:21 +0000

UPDATED!!! Converted userscript to works fine into firefox1.5/greasemonkey 0.64.
UPDATE IT ONLY IF YOU'RE USING FIREFOX1.5/GREASEMONKEY 0.64!!

Archived Comments, replied by cigno5.5

cigno5.5 — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:40:42 +0000

ops, i forgot...now babel mousish works also into google reader...many thanks to bankair for continuos bug reporting

Archived Comments, replied by cigno5.5

cigno5.5 — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:35:54 +0000

script updated.
corrected zindex to view BM box in certain sites

Archived Comments, replied by cigno5.5

cigno5.5 — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:16:14 +0000

script updated! now language configuration is accessible from babel mousish box

Archived Comments, replied by cigno5.5

cigno5.5 — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:49:22 +0000

script updated!!! (again)

Archived Comments, replied by cigno5.5

cigno5.5 — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:51:16 +0000

script updated!

Archived Comments, replied by bankair

bankair — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 06:32:36 +0000

Well, i use Firefox 1.0.7 on a win 2000 pro too, and my version of greasemonkey is 0.5.3

weird weird...

Please correct me if i'm wrong, but i have to click on the small babel fish icon to get a word translated, right ?

Anyway, my email is bankair (at) gmail.com, may we continue this by mail ?

Archived Comments, replied by cigno5.5

cigno5.5 — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 05:23:29 +0000

oh...it's very strange...i tested script with firefox 1.0.7, greasemonkey 0.5.3 on windows2000. I never tested ff1.5 with greasemonkey 0.6. Do you use firefox 1.5 or an older version of firefox/greasemonkey?

Archived Comments, replied by bankair

bankair — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 07:51:18 +0000

Well, i'm french, so i used english to french translations. (and this strange thing happens also from english to italian, or from klingon to smurf. Any word selected is translated into 'DOC')

Archived Comments, replied by cigno5.5

cigno5.5 — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 15:58:12 +0000

hi, bankair, from english to italian the word "DOC" is right translated to italian corrispective of "document". From which language do you come from?

Archived Comments, replied by bankair

bankair — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 12:05:01 +0000

Hey, nice idea, but i always get the word "DOC" instead of the translation. What should i do ?

Archived Comments, replied by cigno5.5

cigno5.5 — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 06:05:06 +0000

new revision! i solved the bug!

Archived Comments, replied by cigno5.5

cigno5.5 — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 08:05:01 +0000

ops...in some sites it doesn't work :( clicking on fish icon to translate make box invisible!! I must discover what's the problem!