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