Translate Web-Ext helps you to translate files with the i18n interface. This is the common API for web extension.

Translate Web-Ext makes the workflow easy:

• Easy Setup: Fetch the language files over the internet
• Stay Focus: Get feedback about the translations to do
• Quick Start: Translate everything from within the browser

• The original text written in the application
• Feedback (need previous language file)
  • Text unchanged
  • New text
  • Text changed since
• In case of changes in the text, it is written in:
  • for the changes added (default)
  • for how it was before (Click on "Old/New" in the arrow button in the id column)

• The translated text
• Feedback (need last translation file)
  • text unchanged
  • no tranlation provided (empty)
  • you have changed the field

• There are 3 states:
  • The original and target text already existed and have not changed
  • All the other cases
  • A To Do case where you have marked done
• You can filter which row are visible though the 'Visible' menu

• Get the resulting translation file

  1. Click on Release
  2. Download the file on your computer
  3. Send it to the developer
     • Attached to a mail
     • Pull Request with Git
  4. You have done a great job so far ;)

• Notes

  • Empty target field won't be exported
  • All the other fields (descriptions, placeholders...) from the source file are exported
  • The todo/done states are only internal to the application and won't block the exportation

• Tab key will focus
  • Each row after the other one
  • First the target textarea and then the To Do checkbox (if available)

• The language file to translate
• The last translation already done (optional: continue your work)
• The previous language file used for translation (optional: show you the difference)

• URL: The file is downloaded and read (Works with Github)
• Locally: Fetch a file on your disk

It is also possible to directly custom all the environment through the URL parameters. Thus, as the extension organizer, you can provide directly a link that points to the previous file translated.

Generated URL Example: https://morikko.github.io/translate-web-extension/translate?headoriginal=https://github.com/Morikko/sync-tab-groups/blob/master/extension/_locales/en/messages.json&baseoriginal=https://github.com/Morikko/sync-tab-groups/blob/94bc92b129c3a1e363ddc9fa5a0e91ca4aeed369/_locales/en/messages.json&basetarget=https://github.com/Morikko/sync-tab-groups/blob/94bc92b129c3a1e363ddc9fa5a0e91ca4aeed369/_locales/fr/messages.json

• You can save a project state (all language files, your translations already done, and the done states) in a JSON
• You can import it back later to continue your work
• You can reload the tab, you won't lose your work. However, you will lose it if you close the tab or open the application in another tab.
• You might work on different translation at the same time in different tabs

• Importing a previously translated file will overwrite the current work
• The done states are reset each time you import any new file