I really hope google brings back the side-by-side scrolling. There was
really no reason to narrow the original text box with all that dead
white area on the right half of the screen now.
About the mouse-over sentence level alignment, I actually find it a
bit annoying. I use the mouse a lot when I read, the same way one uses
a finger when reading a book, and it's a bit distructing when passage
sections change color and text boxes pop-up in the process. I think
this feature is just "trying too hard".
On the positive side, I'd like to complement the "fly-by" live
translation. Sometimes you want to check the translation of several
different words or different varients of a word and this new feature
saves you the trouble of going back and forth from keyboard to mouse.
So good work on that one!
On Nov 17, 1:02 am, Google wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Unfortunately no, there's no way to get back side-by-side right now.
> Thanks for the feedback though! We'll definitely take it into
> consideration.
>
> One thing I'll point out, is we do show sentence level alignment on
> mouse over, so if you hover you mouse over a sentence in the
> translation, we'll show you the original text in the tooltip above
> it... this may solve some of what you liked about side-by-side
> translations.
>
> Cheers,
> Josh
>
> On Nov 16, 2:32 pm, Kylee Kirkpatrick wrote:
>
> > I definitely miss the side by side translation, especially when you
> > are translating large amounts of text. It is much more convenient. How
> > can we contact them to make our desires known? I couldn't find a way.
>
> > On Nov 16, 3:19 pm, ps wrote:
>
> > > I miss the way you could see your translated text side-by-side. Is
> > > there any way of accessing the previous google translate?
