Translate your content, comments and anything else…
I figured I would give Google’s new AJAX Language API a try today and I will say I’m pretty happy with the results. It was really easy to setup and so far the results have been pretty good. For a while now I’ve been thinking of adding other languages to my sites and this will create the transition much easier. Basically it works like this.
You include a little JavaScript snippet on your page. You then setup a simple JavaScript function on your page to translate the text you want. Google offers a whole bunch of languages…here’s the list off their site with the promise it will grow.
- Arabic to English
- Chinese to English
- Chinese (Simplified to Traditional)
- Chinese (Traditional to Simplified)
- Dutch to English
- English to Arabic
- English to Chinese (Simplified)
- English to Chinese (Traditional)
- English to Dutch
- English to French
- English to German
- English to Greek
- English to Italian
- English to Japanese
- English to Korean
- English to Portuguese
- English to Russian
- English to Spanish
- French to English
- French to German
- German to English
- German to French
- Greek to English
- Italian to English
- Japanese to English
- Korean to English
- Portuguese to English
- Russian to English
- Spanish to English
Within about 20 minutes I had a fully working demo up and it’s only the start, I’m sure with some more time and creativity I can find a lot of good uses for this cool API. For those of you interested swing on over their site and read up about it or check out my demo page.
Look at the comments, I’ve added a few languages you can translate to.
http://www.inspirationfolder.com/site/10/5thcolumn.co.uk.html
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