Daily Telegraph bust

seatrout
The translator for the Telegraph web site (telegraph.js) has stopped working. It hangs without populating the little window and doesn't save anything. I imagine the paper has done something to break it, but it would be nice to have it fixed.

Incidentally, is there any eta for a version of Scaffold that works with sync preview?
  • Tjowens
    Thanks for reporting this. Ticket created.
  • mcburton
    seatrout,

    I am not finding any problems with our telegraph.co.uk translator. Could you send the link that is giving you trouble? thanks
  • seatrout
    Sorry to have been away fro so long. I can't get it to work on any pages at all of the Telegraph site at the moment.
  • adamsmith
    edited January 21, 2010
    works fine for me, e.g. here:
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/7045946/Barack-Obama-calls-for-limits-to-size-and-trading-activities-of-banks.html

    pls. follow the steps here and report back with detailed info (FF version, Zotero version, sample URL, error Report ID) if problems persist.
    http://www.zotero.org/support/troubleshooting_translator_issues

    After trying this succesfully on three different pages in three different sections I would suggest closing the ticket - this is not an issue with the translator.
  • seatrout
    OK. I think it has to be an issue with another extension. I have one profile with just zotero v1, scaffold, and dom inspector. That works, at least intermittently. My main profile, which runs a lot more extensions, fails repeatedly: it looks as if it fails in the detectWeb() function for some reason. I will try turning them off.

    If there is a bad reaction with adblock, I will weep salt tears.
  • adamsmith
    edited January 22, 2010
    I run adblock plus without issues and I have never heard of any adblock related issues.
    edit: you have looked at the known incompatibilities?
    http://www.zotero.org/support/known_issues#incompatible_extensions_and_applications
  • seatrout
    I have looked at the known incompatibilities; they don't help. There is something very strange going on, though. Using Zotero 2.0b7.6 I cannot get any story on the telegraph site to be recognised properly. The Zotero icon in the awesome bar never changes to a little newspaper.

    I'll just work through all the extensions. But it doesn't seem affected by adblock or noscript. I wonder if it is urlbarext? will try that next.
  • seatrout
    OK. Solved this. My own fault entirely - I had a broken translator from when I was trying to learn how to write them that was picking up on the URL.

    Sorry. I will go back to trying to write one for the Guardian
  • dstillman
    Someone already wrote a Guardian translator, but it was never added.

    http://groups.google.com/group/zotero-dev/msg/66f3dfd53932ff74

    Feel free to test it and respond to that dev list thread with feedback.
  • seatrout
    Ah. Great. Since I actually work for the Guardian, I want one.

    Also, has anyone written an FT translator?
  • adamsmith
    closed the telegraph ticket.
  • dstillman
    Also, has anyone written an FT translator?
    I don't believe so.
  • areteichi
    @ Dan Stillman

    I'll just comment here first as I'm not sure if I can contribute so much even if I join the zotero-dev group. I just wanted to mention that The Guardian translator didn't quite work for me. I didn't see any icon popping up on my address bar on any of the articles. Maybe it's because it was created more than a year ago?
  • areteichi
    edited January 28, 2011
    I just tried again after installing 2.1b5 and the embedded RDF is now being recognized. I'm not sure if it's due to this translator or you guys fixed the RDF (I get the feeling that it is the latter). Anyway, The Guardian now has RDF at least. Thank you!
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