Eli, I must say I appreciate some of your concerns but some I don't comprehend.
(1) My hunch is that most of our downloaders -- especially technically unsavy (what's the right word here?) people -- download one and only one thing from us. (2) We need to accommodate them mostly, not the people who understand language packages. (3) If it works for FF/Mozilla, why should it not work for us? Could we write a program that 'steals and adapts' their dowmload code on a regular base and thus keeps ours uptodate for the next N years? On Aug 12, 2011, at 6:55 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > Yesterday, Guillaume Marceau wrote: >> Or we can trust that the Mozilla Foundation's user interface >> designers has already done the experiment. They have some of the >> best people of the industry working for them, including Aza Raskin, >> son of Jef Raskin, one of the original designer of the Macintosh. I >> see no reason to deviate from their design choice. >> >> [big:] DrRacket >> [almost as large:] Free Download >> [small and grey:] 5.1.2 for Windows, English (US) >> >> [outside of the button, small and light-grey:] All Systems & Languages > > Borrowing too much from the Firefox download is not a good idea, since > there are some major differences. In the above, the obvious things > are "Free" which they have a good reason to emphasize, and we have a > good reason to not even mention; also, we have some multilingual > support in drracket, but nothing at the installer level (except for > the Mac "installers" that have no text ATM). > > But those are all in the cosmetics department. The main thing that > I'd like to have is a more reliable way to do the platform detection, > and the difference between racket and FF is a substantial one: we have > a lot of downloads, but that's nothing compared to the masses that > install FF. So it makes a bit more sense to "just hack something that > works", and rely on near-immediate user backlash when the guess is > wrong. > > -- > ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: > http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
