I built a website and spent several hours diagnosing why Google Translate did not work when embedded in the site pages, when using Internet Explorer 8 (either with or without compatibility mode). I have the browser on a Vista machine and on a Windows 7 machine; Google Translate failed to work with either of them. It appears to start a translation, but gets no further than "Translating into French 0%". I have tested the site with Firefox and Opera, and Translate works fine with them.
Rather than the problem being with my site, I finally realised the problem was most likely with the IE8 browsers, because even the demonstration of the service on Google's own pages did not work (e.g. http://translate.google.com/translate_tools). I called a few people and asked them if the service worked in their IE browsers and about half got it to work and half did not. I haven't discovered the fix for this and would very much welcome one, but if it is not clear to me, I fear the majority of the users to the site I am developing - who are not necessarily technically-minded and are probably running Internet Explorer - will never be able to use the translation service. If this is a bug that can be fixed, that would be better still. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general?hl=en.
