Adsotrans

This is a humble experiment in creating an online application to support Chinese-English translation. It’s also an experiment in radically simplifying web design, and a good example of the power our new Adso API provides to external web applications.

http://www.adsotrans.com/trans

I’ve designed this around my own needs, but would appreciate thoughts and feedback from other translators. I’ll continue developing it and adding features as they’re requested. Currently my “TODO” list includes adding the ability to delete saved documents.

Browser support? The application should support Firefox and IE and Safari. Some of the GUI is still not completely consistent across browsers, the mouse sometimes highlights text without having being requested to do so and IE’s javascript support is weak and some versions complain when you try to “click-to-copy” definitions into the editing textbook. Let’s call it a work in development.

Otherwise I’ve aimed for radical simplicity. Everyone is welcome to use the system without logging in. If you want save/load translations you’ll have to register with an email address and (non-secure) password. If you don’t already have an account the system will create one for you automatically, otherwise you’ll be logged in and redirected to the last document you were translating.