A place to hold projects to do with translation using the AJAX Language API.

Currently, there are two projects:

• Translate Bookmarklet
• Twitter Translate

Translate Bookmarklet

This bookmarklet allows you to select a piece of text that isn't in your language, and it will try to convert it automatically for you via the Google Language API.

It pops the translation up into the Prototype UI window.

This project contains the bookmarklet, the JavaScript, CSS, and other resources that the bookmarklet downloads, and a copy of John Grubbers script to bookmarklet convertor.

By default it assumes English (en), so you have to change the value to a different one that exists in the documentation.

The contents

``` bookmarklet/ # the main directory translate-bookmarklet.js # the compressed bookmarklet form that you can drag over translate.js # the readable source code pre-compressed

bin/makebookmarklet # John Grubber's script to bookmarklet convertor

server/* # A stripped down Prototype UI Dialog object ```

Twitter Translate

Twitter Translate is a Greasemonkey Script that uses the AJAX Language API to automatically translate any tweets made by people in an other language, back to your language.

The source is currently coded set to "en" for English, but you can set it to any code available.

When you have installed the user script, the next time you have a foreign tweet will have you seeing the translation and after it a GT icon with the words "translated from ...". This is a link that will expand with the original language if you are interested. Click again to unexpand.