Googlified

Traditionally, translating a blog post requires sending your readers to translation services, such as Google Translate and Babel Fish. However, with the revolutionary Google Language API, you can offer content in several languages right on your website now and better experience for the readers.

Due to the fact that I have too much free time during the Spring Break, I wrote a small piece of JavaScript code that uses the API to translate posts on this blog. You can test it out on this blog. It works in Windows’ version of Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 7, Opera 9, and Safari 3, but it should work wherever the Google Language API works (but works better in FF & Opera in my tests).

Well, if you also want to have this cool tool on your site, I packed all the necessary files that you need to set the thing up into a 10kB .zip file, which included the script itself, a readme file, and a couple of flag icons by Mark James of Famfamfam.

Once again, this is not the greatest solution, but it works - brought to you by Haochi.