"Mike Parker" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Walter Bright wrote: >> Nick Sabalausky wrote: >>> "Walter Bright" <[email protected]> wrote in message >>> news:[email protected]... >>>> Nick Sabalausky wrote: >>>>> I didn't see any of the glitchiness or google-translate stuff that >>>>> other people saw (on IE7, FF2, or Iron). Although, from the screenshot >>>>> someone else posted of the translate-bar, I'm glad it's not showing up >>>>> for me. (I really wish people would stop loading up their pages with >>>>> Google's crap.) >>>> I like the translate widget! I've always been enamored with the idea of >>>> a universal translator. >>> >>> There are browser plugins and websites that can handle translation of >>> *any* page, not just pages that the page author has manually embedded it >>> into. And they do it without gunking up the page with unnecessary JS >>> bloat that not everyone's going to need. >> >> I understand your point, I just like to have it right there, and not have >> to go get toolbars and plugins for every browser I use. Also, nobody ever >> complained about it before - why now is it suddenly an issue? > > People don't need plugins to translate a page. All they need do is > navigate to translate.google.com, enter the URL in a box, select a > language, and click a button. My logs show that visitors to my blogs > (including The One With D) do that frequently without any prompting from > me. >
The browser plugins are generally a one-click way to send the url directly either google translate or babelfish. I don't think there's a way you could tell from your logs whether they're doing that manually or if a plugin is doing it for them.
