On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Stephen Chang <stch...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > Some quick observations. > > on Chromium Version 23.0.1271.97 Ubuntu 12.04 (23.0.1271.97-0ubuntu0.12.04.1): > > - broken links: download, research
Right, these are TODO. > - only 2 examples? :) how come some got cut? The example formatting is all manual, so I just did enough to demo all the workings. > - web scraper example is cut off when clicking "?" Maybe make the > overlay window variable width? I'm not sure what you mean. Can you include a screenshot? > > on mobile (android 4.1.2, default browser): > - topright menu has very dark background when opened, so links are not > very visible I'll check this out. Thanks for the feedback! Sam > > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt > <sa...@cs.indiana.edu> wrote: >> Recently I (with assistance from Asumu) have spent some time drafting >> a revised home page for Racket. A revised web page will nicely >> complement the big upcoming release, I hope. You can see the draft >> here, which is ready for people to try out: >> >> http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/samth/new-web/ >> >> Some things to try out out: clicking the right and left arrows, >> clicking the "?" box, visiting the RacketCon page. >> >> The new page addresses a few problems that I see with our current page: >> >> 1. It works well on small devices, which our current page doesn't. >> Try it out on a phone or a tablet. >> 2. It reduces the size of the top header, which will lighten the >> burden on the documentation pages, for example, or the pkg index if we >> add the header there. >> 3. It puts more info on the first page. This means that people are >> more likely to see information about how to contribute to Racket or >> approaches to learning programming using our tools. >> 4. The font size is larger, which I think makes it much more readable. >> >> Perhaps more controversially, I adapted some prose about Racket from >> Matthias' "Racket is ..." post, and added a tag line at the top. >> >> Lots of work is still needed if we want to use this as the basis for >> Racket's web page (it's written in raw HTML, other pages would need >> work, etc), but I hope that people like it enough to continue pursuing >> this. >> >> Sam >> _________________________ >> Racket Developers list: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev > _________________________ > Racket Developers list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
