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Blogs and human languages

edit David Janes 2005-01-05 16:54 UTC 2 comments  ·

Due Diligence has a posting on marking up blog postings to indicate the same posting in different languages. (Note that having a standard for indicating MD5 hashs of blog posts is a great idea, independent of the human language issue).

Jäger has a fairly powerful auto-translation feature for viewing blogs in other languages. Alas, it never seemed to generate much interest. We'll be moving a similar feature into Sparks! as a plug in at some point in the future, probably as button to be pushed in the lower left hand corner (under the browser).

Comment #1Tim Oren

2005-01-06 06:07:04
Just to be sure, you're describing a client-side feature, yes? Which translators are you using? Any reviews to share?

Comment #2David

2005-01-06 18:16:06
It's a mixture of client-side and server-side. You can define any arbitrary transformation to be applied to a URL before it is viewed. One possible set of translations is feeding it to the Yahoo or Google translators.

Another possible translator (for example, it's not implemented) would be to rewrite NY Times URLs to add "partner=radiouserland" so you don't have to register...

It's an easy and effective trick and I use it to follow German news sites.