Yeah, Google translate shouldn't have to "research"/reverse engineer, what kind of framework is being used on any random website it translates. It assuming, that it simply interacts with static information would still be a reasonable assumption. While Google translate is also at fault, if it changes the DOM structure. Why not leave things the same and just exchange textnodes? Seems silly.
I am just supposing, but have not checked, that if they change the text they must also change the DOM by at least changing the lang attribute on nodes affected, meaning probably the lang attribute on the html element, but could also be a lang attribute on each element wrapping a textNode.
on edit: I figured the article must have said something about this and I missed it, and yes, it shows that the DOM is changed to be lang="nl" on the html element, which means obviously if React rerenders but does not rerender the HTML element (which many React applications do not control) then the language would be out of sync, of course.
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Yeah, Google translate shouldn't have to "research"/reverse engineer, what kind of framework is being used on any random website it translates. It assuming, that it simply interacts with static information would still be a reasonable assumption. While Google translate is also at fault, if it changes the DOM structure. Why not leave things the same and just exchange textnodes? Seems silly.
I am just supposing, but have not checked, that if they change the text they must also change the DOM by at least changing the lang attribute on nodes affected, meaning probably the lang attribute on the html element, but could also be a lang attribute on each element wrapping a textNode.
on edit: I figured the article must have said something about this and I missed it, and yes, it shows that the DOM is changed to be lang="nl" on the html element, which means obviously if React rerenders but does not rerender the HTML element (which many React applications do not control) then the language would be out of sync, of course.