On-the-fly translation of Web pages is a fixture in Chrome for PCs, but now it's in the Android version, too. Also arriving: SPDY-augmented data compression.
When Chrome for Android encounters a Web page in a different language, it will offer to translate it.
(Credit: Google)Google, always trying to break down language barriers as part of its mission to make the world's information accessible, has added on-the-fly, automatic Web page translation to its Chrome browser for Android devices.
Chrome 28 for Android, released Wednesday, has the translation feature built in, said Chrome team member Jason Kersey in a blog post. The feature has been built into Chrome for personal computers for years.
• An optimized user interface for right-to-left (RTL) languages including Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew.Also new in Chrome 28 for Android, according to Kersey and another Chrome team member, Dan Alcantara:
• Full-screen support on tablets, which lets Web apps -- in particular games and video -- take over the entire screen.
• Support for Google's experimental data compression service that lets fast Google servers read a Web page, optimize it for mobile devices, then transmit it faster to a mobile device using Google's SPDY network technology. The service only works with unencrypted Web pages.
Google's server-assisted browsing only works for unencrypted Web pages. Encrypted ones use a direct channel to the secure Web page.
(Credit: Google)
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