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Bramus

@Meyerweb We have machine translations for web.dev and developer.chrome.com and the results are often really bad.

The Dutch translation of my recent “Animate to height: auto in CSS” article translates back into something along the lines of “Animate on altitude: automatic with CSS” 😬

8 October at 10:20 | Wall-to-wall | Open on front-end.social
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Maarten Stolte 🍋

@bramus @Meyerweb could have been worse, auto is also car in Dutch

8 October at 10:34 | Open on mastodon.workingweb.nl
Jens Grochtdreis

@bramus @Meyerweb

I really dislike the automatic translation on web.dev

The problem with such translations is that there will be translated nearly everything. And many English words remain in German. We don't translate "browser", we just write it with a capital B 😜

8 October at 10:41 | Open on mastodon.social
Sebastian Laube

@bramus @Meyerweb They are absolute trash and I deeply hate that they turn on automatically on every visit. That's one of the reasons I avoid web.dev

8 October at 10:51 | Open on layer8.space
Bramus

@sebastianlaube @Meyerweb IIIRC that recently changed and your language choice is now persisted.

(Looking at @tunetheweb to confirm)

8 October at 10:53 | Open on front-end.social
Barry Pollard

@bramus @sebastianlaube @Meyerweb

It was persisted using the language drop down menu but not the more prominent “Switch to English” banner that appears at the top 😔 Fixed that about a year ago though after we moved to that infrastructure and immediately got complaints. It still depends on local storage though so in-app browsers and the like may still require a button click if they don't have access to your previous stored preference.

8 October at 19:56 | Open on webperf.social
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