Translating HTML to Spanish - the javascript is not being translated

[brucec]

I want to translate our web site into Spanish. I tried babelfish at altavista.com, but my javascript is not being translated.

Anybody know a better way or web site?

[DrDoc]

Better way = pay someone who speaks both languages fluently.
That's the only way if you care about quality and correctness.

[silverbytes]

I do speak spanish because it's the official language in my country. I'm webdesigner too so if you are interested contact me.
And about babelfish or others it just doesn't work. You can only translate some few words acurrately, not phrases or ideas at all, belive me...
I've tried to use that method in the past in order to translate from spanish to portuguese and it was really awfull!

[tbear]

Why would you want to translate the javascript?

[Gusgsm]

As a Spanish speaker too, I second silverbytes opinion. Any automatic translation from x into Spanish is a joke. Your site won't be taken seriously and it will go right down the drain.

Just pay somebody.

[John_Caius]

Try here:

Dmoz English-Spanish translators [dmoz.org].

[Leosghost]

Anything translated by Babel fish and the others is a joke ...

Eng / Fre ..translator with some German and Italian ...

Babel fish is good for a laugh tho ....

[urthshu]

You're trying to support the <MESA> tag, right?

</groan>

Have you tried Cats cradle? It's a prog that simplifies the task of translating...I think you can find it at slacker's guide.

So far as Machine Translation goes, I'd agree that finding a good translator is your best bet. Try looking up freelancers. Should run about 50 USD per full page of text, plus or minus.

[harvey]

You will need to expose the JavaScript code to the translator as plain HTML. It does not scan the script for text.

Try creating a second page with all the script text showing as plain exposied text. Submit that page and then copy and paste the translated text into the original page. Someplace on the original page, add a button that allows the user to select the language they want and then display the correct script text.

--hm