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July 27, 2003
Translation in Motion
Check out this rendering (I don't know what else to call it) of a Neruda poem. Run your cursor over each line, and it is auto-translated. [link via DangerousMeta]
It's hard-coded with some simple onMouseOver properties in a <span> tag for each line. Would be nice if there were a way to roll your mouse over them again and translate them back, but I'm sure that's possible with some Javascript. An app that extended on this idea, by allowing a teacher to input the original and translated version of a poem and then generating the code to allow mouseover switching of the lines, would be a nifty teaching tool for translation.
Posted July 27, 2003 07:37 AM
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Watch the web guy bemoan the lack of proper CSS support again. (Web guy == me)
http://stormsweeper.net/translateCSS.html (works only in CSS2-capable browsers, ie Mozilla or similar)
Something like that could be automated quite easily.
Comments by anthony . Posted July 28, 2003 03:28 PM