Friday, March 21, 2008

3rd party software virtual delegation: building an entire website on any language based on google translate ajax api

google translate ajax api released these days.

if you just want a simple tool to let your customers do some translations - then just ignore my following comments and check the link above.

BUT - i was thinking on this: how crazy idea would be to build an entire website automatically in the language of the visitor (based on geoip) using google-translate ajax api ? :-)

it's clear that you can't have a real/serious big traffic website like this.

but think about the idea: you write the website in english - and rely on another 3rd party to help you with translation in time - by adding more and more languages.

you also rely on a 3rd party software to automatically detect the preferred language of the visitor based on geo-ip ... :D

you know what virtual functions are in C++ ? this would be a similar concept applied to services ... build a services with possible extensions automatically added by 3rd party software without any intervention from you.

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