Google Translation

Yolo

Why can't I translate my Flarum with Google like any other page?

Oops! Something went wrong with a cross-origin request. Please reload the page and try again.

clarkwinkelmann

Yolo the message happens when you do what?

Is this the Chrome browser built-in page translator? Or the Google Translate URL input?

Yolo

clarkwinkelmann Is this the Chrome browser built-in page translator?

I use Brave, and there's no translation option. Possibly because I'm from the same country.

clarkwinkelmann Or the Google Translate URL input?

The message appears when I use Google Translate via a URL. The overview is translated with all topics. As soon as I click on one, the error message appears.

Steve33

Yolo The message appears when I use Google Translate via a URL. The overview is translated with all topics. As soon as I click on one, the error message appears.

Same here!

clarkwinkelmann

You probably cannot use a single page application inside the Google Translate iframe. Flarum probably attempts to use Google's URL as an API prefix, and the request fails to a cross-origin error before it can even reach the server where it also wouldn't work because it's the wrong server.

Steve33

clarkwinkelmann The question is how to solve it. Translation via URL works on all sites, except Flarum. How should I explain this to users who are used to using this feature?

KBExit

Steve33 have them use Chrome. It's not a Flarum problem, it is a Google Translate problem.

clarkwinkelmann

There's probably some code that could be written to detect when the framed Google translation is used and show a friendly error message.

I've never looked into it, but maybe Google have suggestions for single page app developers to make their apps compatible. Maybe the fix isn't too complicated.