Re: [IxDA Discuss] Google added AJAX to Google Translate?

2009-11-27 Thread William Hudson
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Google added AJAX to Google Translate?

2009-11-26 Thread heather
Do you have any idea of other functions of AJAX aside from above? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=47634 Welcome to the Interaction

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Google added AJAX to Google Translate?

2009-11-26 Thread William Hudson
Just a word of caution - don't try this at home. You need seriously fast infrastructure (and many servers) to provide a good user experience on a character-at-a-time basis. Regards, William Hudson Syntagm Ltd Design for Usability UK 01235-522859 World +44-1235-522859 US Toll Free 1-866-SYNTAGM m

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Google added AJAX to Google Translate?

2009-11-26 Thread Diego Moya
It's fairly recent, they announced it ten days ago in the official Google blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-look-for-google-translate.html AJAX means "Asynchronous JAvascript + Xml", so if it has javascript and asynchronous server calls in it, you can bet its the real thing. It typ

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Google added AJAX to Google Translate?

2009-11-25 Thread Aaron Schwartz
Pretty spectacular! This is so much more powerful than request:response paradigm. I didn't know Google even had this, thanks for sharing. Do you know how to tell if it's AJAX for sure? I don't know much about it yet but would expect to see the word ajax somewhere in the page source (javascript

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Google added AJAX to Google Translate?

2009-11-24 Thread Nick Disabato
Yeah, I noticed this a few weeks ago. I love it. Type (not paste!) "sous la pluie" into the French -> English, and you'll see it change from "under the" to "in the rain." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?p

[IxDA Discuss] Google added AJAX to Google Translate?

2009-11-24 Thread Yun Liu
I used Google Translate a lot, from English to Chinese, from simplified Chinese to Traditional. The process was like: you type in text you had -> clicked the Translate button -> the page will help you to translate. Today, when I use google translate, I find that as soon as you put in a character,