Intended audience: users, XHTML/HTML coders (using editors or scripting), script developers (PHP, JSP, etc.), CSS coders, Web project managers, and anyone who wants to know how HTML escapes work in current browsers.
These tests check whether online machine translation systems recognise the HTML5 translate attribute when processing text for translation.
Both Google and Microsoft online translation services recognised the translate attribute when it was set to no, and left the appropriate text untranslated.
Neither service recognised the translate flag set to yes inside an element with the translate flag set to no as being a signal that that bit of text should be translated.
This is a snapshot of the results in the W3C Test Framework taken on
| Any browser | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| default text, Google | A file with no translate attribute will be translated by Google's online service. | yes / . / . | |
| default text, Microsoft | A file with no translate attribute will be translated by Microsoft's online service. | yes / . / . | |
| translate no on html, Google | When translate=no on the html element no content will be translated by Google's online service. | yes / . / . | |
| translate no on html, Microsoft | When translate=no on the html element no content will be translated by Microsoft's online service. | yes / . / . | |
| translate no on one p, Google | When translate=no on a p element the content of that element will NOT be translated by Google's online service. | yes / . / . | |
| translate no on one p, Microsoft | When translate=no on a p element the content of that element will NOT be translated by Microsoft's online service. | yes / . / . | |
| translate yes on one p, Google | When translate=yes on a p element the content of that element WILL be translated by Google's online service. | yes / . / . | |
| translate yes on one p, Microsoft | When translate=yes on a p element the content of that element WILL be translated by Microsoft's online service. | yes / . / . | |
| translate null on one p, Google | When translate is set to the null string on a p element the content of that element WILL be translated by Google's online service. | yes / . / . | |
| translate null on one p, Microsoft | When translate is set to the null string on a p element the content of that element WILL be translated by Microsoft's online service. | yes / . / . | |
| translate no on span, Google | When translate=no on a span element the content of that element will NOT be translated by Google's online service. | yes / . / . | |
| translate no on span, Microsoft | When translate=no on a span element the content of that element will NOT be translated by Microsoft's online service. | yes / . / . | |
| translate yes on span, Google | When translate=yes on a span element in a context where translate has been set to no, the content of that element WILL be translated by Google's online service. | . / no / . | |
| translate yes on span, Microsoft | When translate=yes on a span element in a context where translate has been set to no, the content of that element WILL be translated by Microsoft's online service. | . / no / . | |