1. A browsing application for accessing network resources and for operating together with a translation resource to perform language translation, comprising: code for retrieving and displaying network resources in a content display area in accordance with a uniform resource locator entered or selected in an address field; code for receiving a command from a user to translate textual material appearing on an arbitrary page navigated to by a user and displayed in said display area; and, code for causing said textual material to be passed to said translation resource in response to said command; code for causing said content display area to display a page comprising a translation of said textual material.