babel fish and websites

[keyclone]

Yesterday i added a set of translation links to the keyclone webarea for our non-english speaking buddies. i don't know how great the translation comes out, but hopefully it'll help.

any feelings on the translation stuff? works like crap? its amazing? feedback is good.

if anyone is interested (Ellay), this is all i added to the web pages:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function translate(lang) {
location.replace( "http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp="+lang+"&trurl="+location.hre f ) ;
}
// -->

<map name="tr">
<area shape="rect" coords="299,5,339,25" href="http://babelfish.altavista.com/">
<area shape="rect" coords="344,8,370,22" href="javascript:translate('en')">
<area shape="rect" coords="372,8,398,22" href="javascript:translate('en_ru')">
<area shape="rect" coords="400,8,426,22" href="javascript:translate('en_zt')">
<area shape="rect" coords="428,8,454,22" href="javascript:translate('en_de')">
<area shape="rect" coords="456,8,482,22" href="javascript:translate('en_ja')">
<area shape="rect" coords="484,8,510,22" href="javascript:translate('en_ko')">
<area shape="rect" coords="512,8,538,22" href="javascript:translate('en_fr')">
<area shape="rect" coords="540,8,566,22" href="javascript:translate('en_it')">
<area shape="rect" coords="568,8,594,22" href="javascript:translate('en_pt')">
<area shape="rect" coords="596,8,622,22" href="javascript:translate('en_es')">
</map>

[img]../images/footer_bar_tr.jpg[/img]

and the image bar looks like this:

[Xzin]

i don't know how great the translation comes out, but hopefully it'll help.

I do. As a native speaker of english and a non fluent speaker of several other languages.... it sucks. It's far better on romance languages (french, german, spanish) than ones with other character sets - japanese, chinese. But it still renders a fairly poor example of localization.

Not trying to knock it too badly - it works - but not very well (yet). Better than nothing though.

[unit187]

well it is very bad translation :P