online translator

[rhodopsin]

Hi,

I want to do some web browsing of sites not in my native language. I know about Babelfish - which will translate a particular given web page. But does anyone know of a tool that will allow me to seamlessly translate a whole web session.

That is - if I want to surf a particular foreign website. I point the translation tool to the first page - it translates it for me. Excellent. When I click on a link on this page to another area of the foreign website - the tool automatically translates this second page and delivers it to me.

With babelfish - if wanting to read that second page - i would have to get its url and cut and paste it into babelfish. Then repeat for the 3rd page. Then for the 4th page. All adding up on my time. Not very seamless.

Would be very interested to hear what ideas people have. Is there a tool out there that can do this? Free would be very, very preferable.

By the way - I realise the limitations of translation tools. But what can I do? Also i am going for french - the english - french translations tend to be quite good.

[bill]

I know some in Japanese that do this for some Asian languages that are still free. I think a lot of the major ones in English, like the one on AV, are now charging for seamless translation. They're putting this limitation in place for a reason in most of the cases.

[rhodopsin]

thanks bill. Yep - I thought I might come up against cost with this request. But would still be very interested to hear if anyone knows of a FREE seamless translation tool. A long shot I know. But we can live in hope.

[rhodopsin]

hi

found answer to the problem - google's translation service allows this seamless translated surfing. Excellent. I would recommend it to anyone.

[mincklerstraat]

google toolbar on firefox / mozilla makes this very easy - there's an option 'translate this page into English', so you don't have to surf to google first. Don't know if this will also do it for other languages, you'll have to dink around a bit.

Does anyone know any online translation services that offer translation as a webservice, i.e., xml or other interface it easy to get the info? Or anyone know one that wouldn't be too unethical to screenscrape according to their terms and conditions?

[rhodopsin]

google cannot translate a web page beginning with https - as opposed to http. That is it cannot translate secure web pages. Does anyone know a seamless translation browsing tool that can:

you click on a link on a translated http web page tp move to a https web page - that https web page can be tranlsated as well.

What I ultimately want to do: I want my French website visitors to pay me via the ikobo.com e-mail money servie (a paypal like service). But their website is only in English. I want to link to a translated ikobo.com website - such as that offereed by google. So, that they can sign up to the ikobo.com service in French. The problem is that the sign up pages are https - and google cannot translate these.