October passed without much development on the interface front, the month was spent mostly on preparing the groundwork for a host of new features to materialize in November. However, we still managed to upgrade the Workbench to enable operations en masse, rework our work package generation interface, and we created a tool to query the status of the caches page-by-page. You can find a more detailed explanation after the break.
Yet another month has passed here in Budapest, and autumn has arrived with the cold weather allowing us to overclock our computers to churn out another new set of features, greater than anything before. Easyling now has an auditing log listing all project events in chronological order, the Workbench has received several optimization passes resulting in a noticeable speedup when many segments are involved, we added the ability to extract HTML snippets from JavaScript as well as the power to exclude individual segments, and we migrated to use HTTPS, creating a secure channel even for the editing interface.
August had a bit of a lull in activity, with our staff taking their well-deserved leaves, so this post is going to be a little bit shorter. But still, Easyling has gained some new abilities and some new fortifications against potential errors. Firstly, Easyling now handles the “data-src” attributes used by various CMS-s, resulting in their contents being handled as resources. If your site uses these attributes, a simple scan will now discover these as well, and extract their contents into the Resources tab.
With the heat of July bearing down on us, our office becomes more of a refuge than a workplace - without our new A/C systems, development would quickly grind to a halt due to heat strokes. But since we’re running those A/Cs on full blast, we can afford to keep rolling out new features and abilities for Easyling as fast as we can. Some of these new features include the ability to completely delete source segments via a regular expression, a new, advanced Discovery system, and with this, a new interface that provides more detailed statistics, as well as a more detailed CSV export, useful for tracking changes.
Another month has passed, and Easyling received several new capabilities, as well as an award during the LT-Innovate Summit in Brussels. The most important of these new capabilities is the new Translation Workbench, an upgrade of the existing List View, rewritten from the ground up along with the advanced _Translation Memory (TMX) _handling to support migration from other proxy solutions; but we also added the ability to define custom “ignore classes”, HTML classes which are exempted from being translated.
May has passed with a lot of rain here in Budapest, and as the proverb goes, “Rains of May are worth gold”. With that in mind, we’re giving Easyling the Olympic Gold in new features. The platform is now able to process JavaScripts embedded into HTML, and some more of the rarely used features of CSS style sheets. Not just that, but we’re also giving users the opportunity to see how their scans terminate, and to upload customized segmentation rules (SRX files)!
Now that April has ended, Easyling has gained a few new capabilities, expanding usability even further. We can now create new pages not existing at the original site, group URLs to stop spawning page entries for WebApps, pseudo-translate websites to test if all the content is picked up, translate JSON objects in AJAX calls and JavaScript files, and we also some Advanced Settings to tweak the site’s behavior. Content Override: Easyling can now create a single page on the site from scratch, or even override the selected page’s content with custom HTML specified by the user.
March Madness has come and gone, and Easyling has been expanded with a number of new features that materialized in the interim. Page and Dictionary Freezing: Once the list of URLs to be translated has been finalized, Easyling can be instructed to freeze the pagelist, or even the entire dictionary, while the quotation/translation work is in progress. Even if people are surfing the website via the proxy, no further pages or translation entries will be added, so translators can work without new segments are appearing.