Re: [Fwd: auto-translation]

Jesper,

I find your arguments very reasonable. Still, I think auto-translation 
may prove useful (for reasons I've mentioned, hence not repeated here). 
The bottom line is, I believe, that we'll never know until we try.

Can we somehow pilot this? Can you manually add this feature to a small 
set of reports, and track its usage? Or add it for a week & if no one 
uses it retract it? Or, let the report editor decide is she wants to 
include an auto-translate button?

a couple of comments inline:

Jesper Holmberg wrote:

>The reason why I was reluctant to include the auto-translation in the web
>interface in the first place, was that I find the translation provided by
>the freely available tools horrible.
>
True, but nevertheless usefull. If two kids are working on the same 
activity, they can read through the amusing bits and get an idea of what 
the other is saying.

>As Ken has noted, it is easy for the researcher who wants to use these
>tools to integrate them into the web browser. 
>
Um. ASAIK, only by installing a particular plugin, which is built for a 
particular browser. In the school we work with, we do not have authority 
to install it.

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