life.i.think

How’d he get in there!? Through greasemonkey of course!

My first script! Places a little fish icon near focused textfields and allows you to translate the text to the language of your choice.

Currently the script is set to translate from english to spanish. You can set different languages by modifying the js. Soon I will convert to a full fledged extension with a preference pane to set language options and whatnot.

Download

The latest version can be downloaded here: babelfish.user.js

Things Left to Do

• Convert to extension. – This will allow a preference pane for language selection.
• Button to revert back to original text.
• Super crazy translate as you type mode!

Changelog

• .3 (5/22/2005) – Translate selected text! Woohoo! Being able to do this was a big motivation behind this script, as now you can just translate that one word you can’t think of when typing in a foreign language! Also fixed small bug with spinner hiding itself even when work is being done.
• .2 (5/20/2005) – Added spinner, translucent fish, and a few small optimizations.
• .1 (5/19/2005) – Basic functionality.

Known Issues

• My particular brand of screen scraping breaks on large bodies of text. Looking into why …