Re: [w3ctag/design-reviews] hrefTranslate attribute (#301)

It is alive. We are conducting an experiment in Chrome with exploring this feature.

Let us set aside the fact that a user with a search engine and if the user is signed in might have language preferences as this complicates things and this isn't what I am talking about.

I'm talking about the ability of a page to provide a statically linked translation service.

eg. I'm preparing a page that is in French but I want to link to an article in German knowing my primary audience is French I might provide a href to something like "https://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=&to=fr&a=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/"

This creates poor server side translations. If I can detect that the user agent supports client side translation I can simply set a hint of the desired language. And if it doesn't match the user settings when the user navigates to it it would translate it.




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