Thanks for your feedback everybody. I took note of your points and
will try to rework things accordingly. A few remarks:
[fonts]
My idea was to give the page subtly TeXy flavour by using Latin Modern
fonts at least for people who have them installed and possibly (hence
the bandwidth concerns question) by loading them live from the web.
That's at least cool from the web-design POV, but it seems that the
approach failed to convince so far.
As Latin Modern Sans doesn't look particularly nice IMO, I think that
strategy will be out when going sans serif.
[Links]
I'll rearrange the extra links once the font question is settled as
the width of the font will determine whether they fit in a single line
or not. If they don't, I'll move the screenshots further up (even
though that'll probably spoil the markup a little)
[BibTeX]
Not that _I_ have ever used BibDesk with anything other than BibTeX,
but I think the application's features reach far beyond BibTeX by now
and it might attract non-TeXie users. Those people always seem to be
frightened by references to TeX. Perhaps one can mention something
like 'transparently works with BibTeX' without making explicit, that
the app was originally designed for it.
[Screenshots]
I'm not tied to the Auto File screenshot. I just needed a third one
for things to look right and tried to find a place in BibDesk that
doesn't look too scary but promises to do something obviously useful.
As BibDesk's document window includes myriads of features in a very
small space, I don't think that having two screenshots of the window
will be all that helpful for people looking at it the first time.
They'll just see two vaguely similar windows there and probably not
understand the difference between them on first sight.
The image zooming being broken is one of the unfinished aspects. I
just used a script from the internet and it looks like this one
doesn't handle long descriptions or the varying image sizes too well.
I'll have to replace that.
[more information]
If I understand your comments correctly, you want there to be a bit
more explicit information about BibDesk's features on the page.
Possibly in the shape of a list whose points are linked to the
relevant wiki pages. I'll try to find a good selection for that.
Best
Sven
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