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tranxuanthang / quick-dictionary

A translation/dictionary extension for Firefox, using Wiktionary (or Google Translate) as source.
https://tranxuanthang.github.io/quick-dictionary/index.html
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Porting extension to chrome #3

Open zenzjtech opened 5 years ago

zenzjtech commented 5 years ago

The idea of the dictionary is really nice. Why haven't you ported the extension to chrome web browser yet?

tranxuanthang commented 5 years ago

Mostly because uploading extensions to Chrome Webstore is not free. In early development of this project, I didn't have any credit card to purchase the fee. Also, it recently has used some features such as Sidebar which Chrome haven't supported yet, so in current state it will need a little work to make it compatible with Chrome. I'll try to make it cross-compatible with Chrome when possible, but if you can do something then any contributions will be appreciated :)

zenzjtech commented 5 years ago

Oh my bad. I am using an extension which utilizes side-bar feature. I thought that the extension is on chrome. However it turns out that extension is on Firefox :P What is your plan to replace sidebar when porting to chrome? In my opinion, the sidebar is specially intuitive. I feel that Option page could not substitute it. Having experienced several dictionary add-on which allows user to query result from Option Page, but the UX is not really comfortable.

I have a request for a feature which:

tranxuanthang commented 5 years ago

Sorry for my late reply. Yes, I think the hot key feature to toggle the sidebar is possible. For now the problem is I just can't find any good hot key combination that is not conflict with any other default hot key in every operating systems. I'll see what I can do about porting this extension to Chrome. Also if someone want a Opera extension port, it will be easier do to comparing to Chrome, because it use the same "browser" object as Firefox and Opera supports sidebar too.