The Google Translator has been slightly redesigned. Instead of a single HTML combo box showing the available language pairs, you now get two DHTML combo boxes each containing a language for more free mixing of source and target languages*. (I wonder why Google does not pick traditional combo boxes?) What"s best is that there"s now a "Detect language" option for the source language; it might be neat if Google makes this the default selection too or perhaps save the last selection in a cookie.
*Google"s meta description of the service explains, "This translator supports: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, ...
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