Hello. My name is Antti and I am an RSS addict.
Seriously though, I get most of my industry news via feeds. The technology while being so simple really is extremely powerful, easy, quick and effortless; it’s hard to say no. Still, there are a couple foreign feeds i want to follow but i don’t want to translate the texts all the time, so i was looking for a service that translates RSS feeds on the fly. I didn’t find anything useful. FeedBurner does a lot so i could easily see them doing this too (especially now that they are a part of Google…) but nada. So, I built my own little prototype.

This was mostly built for myself but i thought i might as well release it for the public. Feel free to try it out and let me know if you run into issues. If you’re interested I don’t mind releasing the source.

http://www.feedlanguage.com

How about my feed in .. Italian?

A challange here and there is always nice, so I thought I’d take it on me. Javascript really isn’t my thing, but I think the result turned out pretty nice.

Click here to view the example

I had three main priorities when writing this

• Easy to use & implement
• Accessible & search engine friendly
• Semantically correct markup

I think i managed pretty well. Give it a try!

Here’s how it works:
Just add class=”switch” to your existing links and include linkswitcher.js in your document. Style your links with css. The switched link will use a class called switchHover. View the source of the example css for further info. That’s it!

Notice that you can’t apply a margin or padding to the a element itself. Apply it to the parent element (in the example the li, see example 3)

The work is licensed under CreativeCommons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license, which means that if you make modifications, you will have to share it under the same license. If you share it, I also want to be noted as the original author, with a link back to this site.
The usage for any purpose, however, is totally up to you.

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