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📜 Extract meaningful content from the chaos of a web page
https://reader.postlight.com
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Reader + Translate compatibility #697

Open johnholdun opened 1 year ago

johnholdun commented 1 year ago

A user emailed us about an issue. I haven't verified this yet, but I'm logging it here so we can investigate it:

Hi, I have being using Mercury Reader for several years now and find it great. I tried to use it with Google translate chrome extension but would not translate when i used your extension first to remove ads etc. I force installed and pinned the updated Postlight reader extension yesterday to the work Organisation but it will not appear now on my chrome extension. I had prior to force installing removed the older mercury reader. I aslo updated my chrome extension and removed cookies. I dont know if others are exeriencing the same behaviour.

danielamuniz367 commented 1 year ago

I'll take a look at this and see if I experience the same behavior.

danielamuniz367 commented 1 year ago

I'm also experiencing the same behavior as this user when I try to use google translate after using the Postlight Reader extension. It overall seems that this is due to a limitation with Google translate. The iframe content, which is what the parsed content is in, can't be rewritten (as far as I know, but if anyone knows how to do this for this case then that would be awesome).

Here's one of the links that led me to this conclusion