On August 4, 2006 11:09 PM Jay Belanger wrote: > > Gabriel Dos Reis writes: > > > "Bill Page" writes: > ... > > | 2) The Axiom Wiki FrontPage has more graphics including an > > | example Axiom output graphic. > > > > That, from my perspective, contributes to the "visual load". > > I agree with this,
:( Well, I really like the example ... in fact I have even given a wild thought to how we might make the from page choose randomly between a large set of similar examples so that a visitor might be treated to a new one at each visit ... I still don't know what is meant by the phrase "visual load". > but what's more, I don't think that linking "Try Axiom" to the > SandBox is that helpful. Really??! As far as I can see this is actually one of the most frequently used wiki features of this web site. > If a visitor to the webpage wants to give Axiom a quick try, > sending them to a lengthy discussion of the sandbox might be > discouraging. Perhaps it is verbose but it does not seem to be very discouraging given the number of quick tries that we record. > Perhaps a link to a "Trying Axiom" page which has a couple of > lines of how to try it out might be helpful. I'd be happy to > give it a shot myself, if desired. Yes, I think it is very desirable. Please give it a try. > > Also, I don't think it's necessary (or even desirable) to keep > all the old tried-out commands in the wiki. That's true. Anytime anyone feels like cleaning up all the crap they are certainly welcome to do it. :) But every once in a while there seems to be something very useful that can be easily generalized and made useful for other people. That is what wikis are for. I keep getting this sinking feeling that almost no one hear on this list understands anything about wikiwiki. :( > I think a link to a page which interactively runs Axiom would > be more desirable: Yacas has something > like that (Yacas runs in a Java applet: > http://yacas.sourceforge.net/yacasconsole.html) > and Maxima does also (http://math.msarnoff.org/). To me these interfaces seem trivial and nearly useless. But if we really do want something like this then it is easily done. > > By the way, I'm entering the discussion late. I am glad you are here. Your comments are very much appreciated. > I don't recall what the front page looked like, but I recall > thinking it looked a bit unfriendly. (Of course, my memory > may be wrong.) Now I think it looks great! > Yes, it has gone through quite a few revisions over the last 6 months and it is still evolving. It is a community effort. Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
