Translation of a website with a .notranslate class on the HTML element

[katsyuta]

I’ve noticed some strange behavior:

The site adds a .notranslate class to the HTML element. When I translate the site, I do not see the translated text — that part works as expected.
When i select some text the translation button to not appear, and this expected behavior, because the page in translated state.

But like a user who did not know about .notranslate selector i think the extention not work. I translated the page but didn’t see any translation. Then I selected the text, but the translate button didn’t appear either.

[vitonsky]

Interesting edge case.

The problem is site programmers disallow translation for a whole content that is completely broke UX for users who don't speak the language.

While this is not a Linguist bug and all work as expected, this case show how user may be confused. So we definitely should improve UX.

Currently i don't know what we could do, so we need in ideas. If you have some, you are welcome to share it here.

Maybe we should leave translation by selection enabled even when page is in translation state.

Or we could leave translation by selection in case user select a text in container that is excluded of translation.