Yes, my sentiments exactly. Robby
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > > I am happy to see that we are looking for solutions to a problem. > > I think we should use everything we can to make the best possible guess. Then > we should use English language to inform people that we made a best possible > guess and that there are alternatives. But this language must be extremely > non-scary to BEGINNERS. > > > > On Aug 11, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > >> I think that maybe, given this particular choice, it makes more sense >> to say, on the web page, "We believe you are on a mac; the 32bit >> version is the one you want, unless you're sure you want the 64bit >> version, which is here. other versions there" which a touch of good >> design and better wording, I think that would be better than relying >> on adobe not doing software development. >> >> Robby >> >> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Guillaume Marceau <gmarc...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Robby Findler >>> <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Guillaume Marceau <gmarc...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> In the ambiguous cases, you can get additional information by checking for >>>>> flash. Because Adobe doesn't support flash player on x64 browsers, if >>>>> detection is successful then it is definitely a 32 bit browser, if not, >>>>> then >>>>> the request came from either a 32 bit browser without flash plugin or >>>>> from a >>>>> 64 bit browser. >>>> >>>> That seems like an unfortunate thing to rely on. >>> >>> Such is life in the stormy world of web development. Just ask Danny >>> about the ridiculous things he has to do to make WeScheme work on the >>> different browsers. >>> >> >> _________________________________________________ >> For list-related administrative tasks: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev > > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
