"Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 ...
That's a pretty neat idea. > I still don't know what is meant by the phrase "visual load". Too many things calling for their attention at the same time. This doesn't seem to be a problem anymore. >> 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. That just means that people want to try Axiom out than add anything to the wiki. >> 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. Well, then, I'm wrong. It would discourage me, but perhaps the typical visitor is more wiki savvy than I am. >> 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. Okay, but according to your numbers, it isn't very important. >> 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. If I want to try out a command line program (like Axiom), I'd like to just enter a command and see what happens, rather than edit a wiki. But I guess that's just me. > Yes, it has gone through quite a few revisions over the last > 6 months and it is still evolving. It is a community effort. Yes, but you seem to be in charge of the community effort. So let me add my voice to all the thanks you've been getting! Jay _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
