the MAT cometh...
microsoft, it seems is lending i18n app developers a helping hand, at least apps on xp and 2003 OS's. ms has just anounced a beta for MAT. what's MAT? to quote the public site "Microsoft Application Translator (MAT) provides on-the-fly translation of applications' User Interface (UI) from one language to another. Using MAT, you can run applications in your preferred language". in simple terms this means if you develop a desktop app in thai, you could translate it to arabic with MAT. at first glance it looks like it just does text localization, which while not the only part of i18n work, it is however the dreariest. MAT also really won't help apps that aren't at least somewhat i18n (at least according to the public FAQ). from the public site, i'm not really sure if it does web apps. not sure what smaller localization shops will make of this. it might lose them their marginal/low end business. is nothing safe ;-) now if we could just get mm to provide native resourceBundle functionality....
posted by Paul Hastings @ 4:57 PM
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