D web site facelift

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Mike Parker" <aldacron at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:i0ohtk$19am$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> "Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
>>> news:i0nula$bk7$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>>>> I didn't see any of the glitchiness or google-translate stuff that 
>>>>> other people saw (on IE7, FF2, or Iron). Although, from the screenshot 
>>>>> someone else posted of the translate-bar, I'm glad it's not showing up 
>>>>> for me. (I really wish people would stop loading up their pages with 
>>>>> Google's crap.)
>>>> I like the translate widget! I've always been enamored with the idea of 
>>>> a universal translator.
>>>
>>> There are browser plugins and websites that can handle translation of 
>>> *any* page, not just pages that the page author has manually embedded it 
>>> into. And they do it without gunking up the page with unnecessary JS 
>>> bloat that not everyone's going to need.
>>
>> I understand your point, I just like to have it right there, and not have 
>> to go get toolbars and plugins for every browser I use. Also, nobody ever 
>> complained about it before - why now is it suddenly an issue?
>
> People don't need plugins to translate a page. All they need do is 
> navigate to translate.google.com, enter the URL in a box, select a 
> language, and click a button. My logs show that visitors to my blogs 
> (including The One With D) do that frequently without any prompting from 
> me.
>

The browser plugins are generally a one-click way to send the url directly 
either google translate or babelfish. I don't think there's a way you could 
tell from your logs whether they're doing that manually or if a plugin is 
doing it for them.