Woops, wish gmail would reply to mailing lists properly. On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Nexii Malthus <[email protected]>wrote:
> Wow! Auto-translation, this is a *huge *important feature. I considered > something similiar being conceived but seeing a real working implementation > is fantastic. > > And I have to add in my vote for opening up the URL for easier runtime > modification as well, potential for abuse is minimal compared to the > potential benefits in that. As well as open up the user to preferable > translation websites. > > - Nexii Malthus > > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:35 PM, David Simmons <[email protected]>wrote: > >> The actually translation is call by the lltranslate.cpp, the google >> url is hardcoded, it should not be hard to make it a setting in the >> xml file: >> >> +// These two are concatenated with the language specifiers to form a >> complete Google Translate URL >> +const char* LLTranslate::m_GoogleURL = >> "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=";; >> >> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Jo Grant <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > By what mechanism is the translation done? If it's not local, what is >> the transport mechanism to and from the translation service? >> > I've done a lot of work on chat translation and you can't forget the >> privacy concerns. Not that Second Life chat is secure anyway, but people are >> going to want to know who their chats are being sent to. If it's going up >> and down the line via https, or some other secured transfer protocol, that's >> one step. However, a picky person would say that if the service logs the >> text submitted for translation (which Google does, to build up it's >> dictionaries) than it is a violation of the terms of service. >> > Just saying... >> > >> > Cheers, >> > >> > Jo /Jaymin Carthage >> > >> > >> > *************************************** >> > Jo Grant, [email protected] >> > http://www-03.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/roivw >> > ISV Developer Enablement Architect, >> > Notes 8 Composite Applications and XPages, >> > One Roger's Street, Cambridge MA 02144 >> > tel: 617-693-6089 >> > SL: Jaymin Carthage >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: >> > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev >> > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting >> privileges >> _______________________________________________ >> Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: >> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev >> Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting >> privileges >> > >
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